8 papers
Stop Drawing Scientific Claims from LLM Social Simulations Without Robustness Audits
Jinyi Ye, Lei Cao, Ding Chen +1
The scientific claims drawn from LLM social simulations should be no stronger than the robustness audits that support them. Generative agents bring new expressive power to agent-ba…
Israel-Hamas War on X: A Case Study of Coordinated Campaigns and Information Integrity
TuÄrulcan Elmas, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Manita Pote +8
Coordinated campaigns on social media play a critical role in shaping crisis information environments, particularly during the onset of conflicts when uncertainty is high and verif…
Emergent Coordinated Behaviors in Networked LLM Agents: Modeling the Strategic Dynamics of Information Operations
Gian Marco Orlando, Jinyi Ye, Valerio La Gatta +4
Generative agents are rapidly advancing in sophistication, raising urgent questions about how they might coordinate when deployed in online ecosystems. This is particularly consequ…
Synthetic Politics: Prevalence, Spreaders, and Emotional Reception of AI-Generated Political Images on X
Zhiyi Chen, Jinyi Ye, Beverlyn Tsai +2
Despite widespread concerns about the risks of AI-generated content (AIGC) to the integrity of social media discourse, little is known about its scale and scope, the actors respons…
The Susceptibility Paradox in Online Social Influence
Luca Luceri, Jinyi Ye, Julie Jiang +1
Understanding susceptibility to online influence is crucial for mitigating the spread of misinformation and protecting vulnerable audiences. This paper investigates susceptibility…
A Large-Scale Simulation on Large Language Models for Decision-Making in Political Science
Chenxiao Yu, Jinyi Ye, Yuangang Li +4
While LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text generation and reasoning, their ability to simulate human decision-making -- particularly in political contexts -- rema…