This study investigates the extent to which linguistic typology influences the performance of two automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems across diverse language families. Using the FLEURS corpus and typological features from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), we analysed 40 languages grouped by phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic domains. We evaluated two state-of-the-art multilingual ASR systems, Whisper and Seamless, to examine how their performance, measured by word error rate (WER), correlates with linguistic structures. Random Forests and Mixed Effects Models were used to quantify feature impact and statistical significance. Results reveal that while both systems leverage typological patterns, they differ in their sensitivity to specific domains. Our findings highlight how structural and functional linguistic features shape ASR performance, offering insights into model generalisability and typology-aware system development.

Advancements in Natural Language Generation have raised concerns on its potential misuse for deep fake news. Grover is a model for both generation and detection of neural fake news. While its performance on automatically discriminating neural fake news surpassed GPT-2 and BERT, Grover could face a variety of adversarial attacks to deceive detection. In this work, we present an investigation of Grover’s susceptibility to adversarial attacks such as character-level and word-level perturbations. The experiment results show that even a singular character alteration can cause Grover to fail, affecting up to 97% of target articles with unlimited attack attempts, exposing a lack of robustness. We further analyse these misclassified cases to highlight affected words, identify vulnerability within Grover’s encoder, and perform a novel visualisation of cumulative classification scores to assist in interpreting model behaviour.