The Synthetic Web: Adversarially-Curated Mini-Internets for Diagnosing Epistemic Weaknesses of Language Agents

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arXiv:2603.00801v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language agents increasingly act as web-enabled systems that search, browse, and synthesize information from diverse sources. However, these sources can include unreliable or adversarial content, and the robustness of agents to adversarial ranking - where misleading information appears prominently in search results - remains poorly understood. Existing benchmarks evaluate functional navigation or static factuality but cannot causally isolate th