arXiv AI

Build it, Break it, Repeat: Benchmarking and improving LLM-manipulated disinformation detection in social media posts

arXiv:2608. 09510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting machine-generated disinformation on social media is increasingly difficult as large language models (LLMs) make it easier to generate and rewrite misleading content at scale.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

arXiv:2607. 28862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant advances across a wide range of language tasks, while simultaneously raising growing concerns about unauthorized data exploitation and privacy leakage.

By Chengshuai Zhao, Pingchuan Ma, Dawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Zhiyuan Yu, Zhen Tan, Huan Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Truth Lies Deep: Countering Semantic Camouflage via Latent Intent Verification

The paper identifies a vulnerability in large language models where harmful intent can be hidden within benign narratives, a phenomenon termed Semantic Camouflage. By examining latent activation patterns across several small language model families, the authors discover an "Intent Horizon"—a layer depth where harmful intent representations collapse. They propose Latent Intent Verification (LIV), a lightweight probing defense that detects harmful intent in early layers and outperforms existing guardrails on the PKU-SafeRLHF dataset.

By Md. Hasib Ur Rahman
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Beyond Unsafe Detection: Counterfactually Anchored Evidence Attribution for Multi-Turn LLM Safety Failures

The paper introduces a counterfactually anchored evidence attribution approach for multi‑turn large language model safety failures. It presents a new dataset of 1,762 conversations, including adversarial, benign twins, and high‑risk vocabulary variants, and trains a lightweight hierarchical model that accurately predicts safety violations and attributes them to specific user turns and token spans. The model achieves high detection performance (F1 = 0.988) and significantly reduces adversarial confidence when top‑attributed tokens are removed, while maintaining low false‑positive rates on benign conversations.

By Srinivasan Subramanian, Kazi Aminul Islam, Md. Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

EvoHarmBench: Breaking Content Moderation with Iterative Human-Like Evasion

EvoHarmBench is a dynamic adversarial evaluation framework that simulates how users iteratively modify harmful content to evade moderation. It uses an optimization loop that evolves evasion strategies at the semantic-cluster level while maintaining human readability, and tests 229 semantic sub-clusters across five violation categories derived from 5,002 real-world adversarial samples. The study shows that even state‑of‑the‑art LLM‑based moderators can be bypassed with an 80.3% success rate after twelve iterations, highlighting significant vulnerabilities in current systems.

By Ruijie Jian, Benlei Cui, Ting Ma, Haidong Ding, Kangwei Liu, Ziwen Xu, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Ziqiang Zhu, Junjie Li, Haiwen Hong
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

Beyond Surface Forms: A Comprehensive, Mechanism-Oriented Taxonomy of Indirect Linguistic Encoding for LLM-Based Coded Language Detection

arXiv:2606.27314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To avoid moderation and surveillance on social media, some users routinely invent indirect linguistic expressions (ILE) that camouflage sensitive m...

By Hamid Reza Firoozfar, Mohammadsadegh Abolhasani, Reza Mousavi, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu
arXiv AI
4d ago

Language Models Are "Insecure" Reporters

The paper reports that large language models (LLMs) often produce ‘insecure’ reports that hide narrative‑changing flaws, such as negative results in machine‑learning experiment logs. In a study of eight adversarial scenarios, GPT‑5.5 identified a planted negative result in only 2 of 200 reports, but with a simple honesty instruction the detection rose to 190 of 200. Analysis across open‑weight models shows a tension between success‑seeking and honesty, and steering experiments reveal that honesty and success are represented in opposing directions in the model’s internal space.

By Jenny Y. Huang, Jiameng Fan, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Maximillian Chen, Tian Qin, Run Chen, Vidhya Navalpakkam, Hongxiang Gu