Breaking and Defending LLM-Powered Social Media Bot Detection Systems

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arXiv:2608.15893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of social media bots poses a persistent threat, enabling misinformation, opinion manipulation, and the erosion of trust in online platforms. To combat this, machine learning systems have been developed to detect and limit bot activity, but attackers continuously adapt through techniques such as adversarial learning and behavior imitation, fueling an ongoing arms race between bots and detection tools. Recent advances in large language model