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A Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation

arXiv 2410.13915 ↗First posted 17 Oct 2024cs.SI cs.AI cs.CYcited by 12

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Abstract (arXiv)

The rise of AI-driven manipulation poses significant risks to societal trust and democratic processes. Yet, studying these effects in real-world settings at scale is ethically and logistically impractical, highlighting a need for simulation tools that can model these dynamics in controlled settings to enable experimentation with possible defenses. We present a simulation environment designed to address this. We elaborate upon the Concordia framework that simulates offline, `real life' activity by adding online interactions to the simulation through social media with the integration of a Mastodon server. We improve simulation efficiency and information flow, and add a set of measurement tools, particularly longitudinal surveys. We demonstrate the simulator with a tailored example in which we track agents' political positions and show how partisan manipulation of agents can affect election results.

Key facts. Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 28 of its 51 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 Oct 2024.

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12 papers.

  1. 2024From Individual to Society: A Survey on Social Simulation Driven by Large Language Model-based Agentscited by 82
  2. 2025Can A Society of Generative Agents Simulate Human Behavior and Inform Public Health Policy? A Case Study on Vaccine Hesitancycited by 17
  3. 2025The PIMMUR Principles: Ensuring Validity in Collective Behavior of LLM Societiescited by 14
  4. 2025textttBluePrint: A Social Media User Dataset for LLM Persona Evaluation and Trainingcited by 6
  5. 2025NegotiationGym: Self-Optimizing Agents in a Multi-Agent Social Simulation Environmentcited by 3
  6. 2025SimCity: Multi-Agent Urban Development Simulation with Rich Interactionscited by 2
  7. 2025Synthia: Scalable Grounded Persona Generation from Social Media Datacited by 1
  8. 2025Inject, Fork, Compare: Defining an Interaction Vocabulary for Multi-Agent Simulation Platformscited by 1
  9. 2025Prototyping Digital Social Spaces through Metaphor-Driven Design: Translating Spatial Concepts into an Interactive Social Simulationcited by 0
  10. 2025Predicting Social Media User Actions: A Hybrid Approach for Common and Rare Behavior Prediction on Blueskycited by 0
  11. 2026From Who They Are to How They Act: Behavioral Traits in Generative Agent-Based Models of Social Mediacited by 0
  12. 2026Eco3S: Complex Socio-Economic System Simulation via Agent-Based Modelscited by 0