One of the most remarkable aspects of Large Language Models is their ease of writing creative texts; under certain conditions, they have been shown to match and improve average human writing skills. But is their writing truly creative, or just a repetition of the clichés they have been pre-trained with? Do they have a distinctive creative writing style? What is the role of (human) prompting in the creation process?
In the talk, I will discuss the creative writing potential of LLMs and their intrinsic limitations, paying special attention to the experiments carried out at UNED. These include a contest between GPT-4 and one of the best contemporary novelists in Spanish, Patricio Pron. The contest is inspired by past AI duels (such as DeepBlue vs Kasparov and AlphaGo vs Lee Sidol), and was designed to test whether LLMs can already challenge a top (rather than an average) fiction writer.
Keynote: Will an A.I. be the Shakespeare of the XXI Century? Julio Gonzales
12:10-12:40
Overview: Voight-Kampff Generative AI Authorship Verification Janek Bevendorff, Matti Wiegmann, Efstathios Stamatatos, Benno Stein, and Martin Potthast
Overview: Oppositional Thinking Analysis Damir Korenčić, Berta Chulvi, Xavier Bonet, Mariona Taulé, Francisco Rangel, and Paolo Rosso
14:25-14:30
Best System Award: Oppositional Thinking Analysis Symanto
14:30-14:45
Conspiracy vs critical thinking using an ensemble of transformers with data augmentation techniques Angelo Maximilian Tulbure and Mariona Coll Ardanuy
14:45-15:00
SINAI at PAN 2024 Oppositional Thinking Analysis: Exploring the fine-tuning performance of LLMs María Estrella Vallecillo-Rodríguez, María Teresa Martín-Valdivia and Arturo Montejo-Ráez
15:00-15:15
Towards a Computational Framework for Distinguishing Critical and Conspiratorial Texts by Elaborating on the Context and Argumentation with LLMs Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Salar Mohtaj, Sebastian Möller and Vera Schmitt
15:15-15:30
DSVS at PAN 2024: Ensemble Approach of Large Language Models for Analyzing Conspiracy Theories Against Critical Thinking Narratives Sergio Damian, Brian Herrera-Gonzalez, David Vazquez-Santana, Hiram Calvo, Edgardo Felipe-Riverón and Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez
15:30-16:30
Poster Session
16:30-18:00
Lab Session, Chair: tbd.
16:30-17:00
Overview: Multilingual Text Detoxification Daryna Dementieva, Alexander Panchenko
17:00-17:50
Participant Presentations Multilingual Text Detoxification
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