arXiv AI

How Artificial Intelligence LLM Engines Shape the Global Conflict Information Environment

arXiv:2607. 14197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) answer engines now field a growing share of the questions that analysts, scholars, and the public ask about issues of peace and conflict.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

Geopolitical Divisions Across Languages in Large Language Models

The study examines how language influences AI chatbot responses to questions about the war in Ukraine, revealing that the same AI systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini) produce varying political stances across 112 languages. By evaluating 20 statements in 112 languages, the researchers found that Russia‑leaning versus Ukraine‑leaning answers differ by language, mirroring global political attitudes such as public support for Russia, UN voting patterns, and aid levels. This pattern persists across all three models and even when specific statement pairs are removed, suggesting that information warfare could embed geopolitical biases into AI training data.

By Maxim Chupilkin
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Counter-GEO-Bench: Evaluating Defenses Against Information-Distorting Generative Engine Optimization

Counter‑GEO‑Bench is a new benchmark that evaluates how well defenses can stop large language models from producing misinformation when faced with generative engine‑optimized (GEO) content. It contains 247 human‑verified queries paired with both information‑preserving and information‑distorting GEO rewrites, and measures attack success rate, false positives, and answer quality across three victim LLMs. The study shows that existing off‑the‑shelf defenses reduce attack success by at most 5.7 %, while a lightweight baseline called C‑GEO Guard cuts success by 47.6 % with minimal loss of utility.

By Bing Zheng, Zongyao Zhao, Wenming Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 2

Counter-GEO-Bench: Evaluating Defenses Against Information-Distorting Generative Engine Optimization

Counter‑GEO‑Bench is a new defense benchmark that tests how well systems can resist misinformation generated by generative engine optimization (GEO). It contains 247 human‑verified queries paired with both information‑preserving and information‑distorting GEO rewrites, and evaluates defenses on attack success rate, false positives, and answer quality across three large language models. Existing off‑the‑shelf defenses reduce attack success by at most 5.7%, while a lightweight baseline, C‑GEO Guard, cuts it by 47.6% with minimal loss of utility.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

When Optimization Becomes Manipulation: Defending Generative Search against Malicious Generative Engine Optimization

The paper introduces GEO Defender, a two‑stage defense system designed to protect generative search engines from malicious Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) attacks that rewrite web documents to manipulate generated answers. GEO Defender comprises a Shield Reranker, which learns a defensive residual to demote GEO‑rewritten documents while maintaining relevance, and a Training‑Free Shield Generation component that creates a natural‑language library guiding the target LLM’s source usage during inference. Experiments on both closed‑source and open‑source large language models show that GEO Defender dramatically lowers attack success rates from 50.32% to 6.20%, preserves over 94% of benign evidence usage, and maintains answer quality while generalizing to unseen attacks.

By Haozhang Li, Yangguang Shao, Xinjie Lin, Zhong Guan, Mi Zhou, Junzheng Shi