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CSC: Calibrated Simplicity for Conflict-Aware Social Bot Detection in the LLM Era

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

Social bot detection is essential for protecting online platforms from misinformation amplification, coordinated manipulation, and distorted public discourse. However, large language models have made social bots much harder to detect from text alone because semantic camouflage is now cheap, fluent, and scalable. The resulting challenge is modality conflict: an account may look human-like in semantics while remaining suspicious in graph structure, profile attributes, or cross-modal consistency. Recent graph-based detectors tackle this limitation by adding graph-side complexity, such as sparse p

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