PhD in Computer Science

Disinformation is now a universal problem across nations and languages, with the most recent Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum identifying mis/disinformation as the top short/mid-term risk to society (WEF, 2025). The increasing advance of large language models (LLMs) has led to a rapid rise in LLM misuse by malicious actors, for the purposes of low-cost generation of fake news and propaganda content, i.e. the spread of AI-generated disinformation at scale (Xu et al., 2023). An extensive assessment of LLMs’ capabilities of generating high-quality disinformation is needed to understand its potential harms and propose actions to counter it.