The paper introduces the concept of Cyber Social Agents (CSAs), automated actors on social media defined by a taxonomy of archetypes based on operational tactics and rhetorical style. It integrates this taxonomy into a large language model (LLM)-driven simulation where agents interact within a network, allowing the study of how diverse agent types influence information diffusion and social influence. The approach bridges rule‑based agent models and LLM‑powered simulations by parameterizing generated agents with empirically grounded CSA personas.
arXiv:2606. 14715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly used to simulate real world interactions, but it remains unclear whether simulated behaviors preserve the content patterns and interaction dynamics of real human behaviors.
The paper reports the first large‑scale empirical comparison of AI‑agent and human online communities, analyzing 73,899 Moltbook and 189,838 Reddit posts across five matched communities. It finds that Moltbook shows extreme participation inequality (Gini = 0.84 vs. 0.47) and high cross‑community author overlap (33.8% vs. 0.5%). Linguistically, AI‑generated content is emotionally flattened, more assertive than exploratory, and socially detached, leading to community‑level homogenization that is largely a structural artifact of shared authorship. At the individual level, AI agents are more identifiable than human users due to outlier stylistic profiles amplified by their extreme posting volume.
arXiv:2506. 12078v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the dynamic evolution of complex social phenomena requires both high-fidelity modeling of human behavior and large-scale simulations.
arXiv:2608.00929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social dynamics encode the process in which individual network and discourse interactions aggregate into collective influence, narrative dominance...
arXiv:2602. 02838v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The detection of online influence operations -- coordinated campaigns by malicious actors to spread narratives -- has traditionally depended on content analysis or network features.
arXiv:2608. 10920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce IO Factory, an AI-driven framework for simulating information and influence campaigns as fully integrated, traceable processes.
arXiv:2602.09270v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a large scale data analysis of Moltbook, a Reddit-style social media platform exclusively populated by AI agents. Analyzing over 4...
arXiv:2610.07535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent simulations with large language models (LLMs) often operate networks of agents with a single base model. This overlooks the inter-model e...
ThreadBench is a benchmark that evaluates how well large language model (LLM) agents simulate real-world Reddit discussions, using 9,817 real threads across 8 domains and 116 subdomains. It compares generated and real threads on 12 metrics grouped into uniformity, expression, tone, and interaction. The authors also introduce Thread-Prompt-based Discussion Generation (ThreadPDG), a Planner-Writer framework that learns thread growth from real seeds and achieves high pass rates on ThreadBench, outperforming baseline methods and matching real discussions in 78.7% of human evaluations.
The article reviews the challenges and opportunities of detecting social bots amid the rise of advanced AI chatbots. It highlights gaps in current detection methods, especially regarding AI-generated conversations, and identifies emerging trends such as synthetic data generation, multimodal cross‑platform detection, low‑resource language support, and federated learning approaches. The authors propose these directions as promising avenues for future research.
arXiv:2510. 05743v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We review the historical development and current trends of artificially intelligent agents (agentic AI) in the social and behavioral sciences: from the first programmable computers, and social simulations soon thereafter, to today's experiments with large language models.
arXiv:2512. 23128v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Web-based agents powered by large language models are increasingly used for tasks such as email management or professional networking.