Leveraging GPT for the Generation of Multi-Platform Social Media Datasets for Research

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Auteurs principaux: Tari, Henry, Khan, Danial, Rutten, Justus, Othman, Darian, Kaushal, Rishabh, Bertaglia, Thales, Iamnitchi, Adriana
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author Tari, Henry
Khan, Danial
Rutten, Justus
Othman, Darian
Kaushal, Rishabh
Bertaglia, Thales
Iamnitchi, Adriana
author_facet Tari, Henry
Khan, Danial
Rutten, Justus
Othman, Darian
Kaushal, Rishabh
Bertaglia, Thales
Iamnitchi, Adriana
contents Social media datasets are essential for research on disinformation, influence operations, social sensing, hate speech detection, cyberbullying, and other significant topics. However, access to these datasets is often restricted due to costs and platform regulations. As such, acquiring datasets that span multiple platforms which are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the digital ecosystem is particularly challenging. This paper explores the potential of large language models to create lexically and semantically relevant social media datasets across multiple platforms, aiming to match the quality of real datasets. We employ ChatGPT to generate synthetic data from two real datasets, each consisting of posts from three different social media platforms. We assess the lexical and semantic properties of the synthetic data and compare them with those of the real data. Our empirical findings suggest that using large language models to generate synthetic multi-platform social media data is promising. However, further enhancements are necessary to improve the fidelity of the outputs.
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spellingShingle Leveraging GPT for the Generation of Multi-Platform Social Media Datasets for Research
Tari, Henry
Khan, Danial
Rutten, Justus
Othman, Darian
Kaushal, Rishabh
Bertaglia, Thales
Iamnitchi, Adriana
Computers and Society
Social media datasets are essential for research on disinformation, influence operations, social sensing, hate speech detection, cyberbullying, and other significant topics. However, access to these datasets is often restricted due to costs and platform regulations. As such, acquiring datasets that span multiple platforms which are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the digital ecosystem is particularly challenging. This paper explores the potential of large language models to create lexically and semantically relevant social media datasets across multiple platforms, aiming to match the quality of real datasets. We employ ChatGPT to generate synthetic data from two real datasets, each consisting of posts from three different social media platforms. We assess the lexical and semantic properties of the synthetic data and compare them with those of the real data. Our empirical findings suggest that using large language models to generate synthetic multi-platform social media data is promising. However, further enhancements are necessary to improve the fidelity of the outputs.
title Leveraging GPT for the Generation of Multi-Platform Social Media Datasets for Research
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08323