Zhen-Yuan Wang

Evolving to Evade: Exposing and Mitigating LLM-Assisted Persona Camouflage in Social Bot Detection

: Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping social bot detection by decoupling automated intent from surface-level expression. This decoupling weakens a central assumption behind contemporary detectors: that an account’s textual persona, profile metadata, and graph position remain jointly stable across evaluation. An...