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Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Mykola Trokhymovych, developed an adversarial methodology that models impersonation of real social media users to create a multilingual, cross-platform dataset of paired human and AI-generated messages, and showed that training on such data yields accurate detection of AI-generated text, significantly outperforming existing content-based bot detection models on real-world out-of-distribution data.

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Adversarial Creation and Detection of AI-Generated Social Bot Content
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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.

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From: Mykola Trokhymovych [[view email](/show-email/b810330f/2606.07219)]

**[v1]** Fri, 5 Jun 2026 12:32:47 UTC (1,155 KB)

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