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Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A new collection pairs human social media messages with AI-written copies that impersonate real users, across several languages and platforms. A detector trained on these pairs finds AI-written posts in real-world data better than current detectors.

Abstract

The convergence of large language models and social bots allows malicious actors to manipulate the information ecosystem by generating human-like content at scale. Existing models for detecting AI-generated content often fail in the wild, primarily due to the lack of ground-truth data. We address this gap through an adversarial methodology that models the impersonation of real social media users by malicious actors. Using this methodology, we curate a multilingual, cross-platform dataset of paired human and AI-generated messages. Training on such adversarial data yields accurate detection of AI-generated text. Our approach significantly outperforms existing models for content-based bot detection in real-world, out-of-distribution data.

Mykola Trokhymovych, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Alessandro Flammini, Diego Saez-Trumper, Filippo Menczer
arXiv:2606.07219 · cs.CL, cs.SI · submitted Jun 5, 2026
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