When Agents Talk: Discourse, Manipulation, and Risk in an Agentic Social Network
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What happened
This collection of recent arXiv papers highlights multiple emerging AI-enabled security and influence risks. Key findings: large numbers of autonomous/human-operated agents on a Reddit-style platform (Moltbook) produced ~228k posts in 17 days with 18.28% containing toxic, manipulative, or malicious content; researchers cluster 74 malicious behavior classes including credential harvesting, host-execution instructions, proxy routing guidance, and installing untrusted agent skills, plus coordinated rapid posting campaigns. Complementary works survey the rising threat from generative AI-enabled in
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- Source ID
- arxiv_cs_si
- Record identifier
- e05003e941cefa969257f49d8702f6a8b2a2233844e00350fc08fcf2be91a58f
- Enrichment time
- 2026-06-02T08:52:15Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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