Artifcial intelligence-friend or foe in fake news campaigns

In this paper the impact of large language models (LLM) on the fake news phenomenon is analysed. On the one hand decent text‐generaotin capabilietis can be misused for mass fake news production. On the other, LLMs trained on huge volumes of text have already accumulated information on many facts thus one may assume they could be used for fact‐checking. Experiments were designed and conducted to verify how much LLM responses are aligned with actual fact‐checking verdicts. The research methodology consists of an experimental dataset preparation and a protocol for interacting with ChatGPT, currently the most sophisticated