arXiv:2601.06154cs.CYcs.AI2026-01被引 1

用智能机器人主动传播正能量,比被动纠错更有效遏制阴谋论蔓延。

BotSim: Mitigating The Formation Of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots

  • 构建基于代理的模拟系统,引入信息纠正与正面宣传两类机器人。
  • 正面机器人比纠错机器人更高效且可持续,主动传播优于被动修正。
  • 为社交网络治理提供新思路,揭示机器人可被用于维护健康舆论生态。

社会可能演变为多数人相信并传播阴谋论的群体。人工智能催生了可自动化传播阴谋论的社交机器人。当前组织主要依赖人工事实核查和反叙事传播来应对,但利用相同自动化技术创建有益机器人的效果尚未充分探索。为此,我们构建了BotSim——一个在小世界网络中模拟社会的基于代理的模型,引入两类有用机器人:信息纠正机器人(Info-Correction Bots)可将错误信息修正为正确信息,好机器人(Good Bots)则主动发布正面信息。模拟中,代理通过生成、消费和传播信息互动。结果表明,若无干预,坏机器人可导致阴谋论社会;而引入信息纠正机器人或好机器人均可缓解此趋势,但好机器人更高效且可持续。主动正面传播比被动纠错更具资源效率。本研究拓展了机器人作为恶意社交代理的概念,揭示其亦可用于善治。研究成果对设计健康社交网络通信策略具有重要启示。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Societies can become a conspiratorial society where there is a majority of humans that believe, and therefore spread, conspiracy theories. Artificial intelligence gave rise to social media bots that can spread conspiracies in an automated fashion. Currently, organizations combat the spread of conspiracies through manual fact-checking processes and the dissemination of counter-narratives. However, the effects of harnessing the same automation to create useful bots are not well explored. To address this, we create BotSim, an Agent-Based Model of a society in which useful bots are introduced into a small world network. These useful bots are: Info-Correction Bots, which correct bad information into good, and Good Bots, which put out good messaging. The simulated agents interact through generating, consuming and propagating information. Our results show that, left unchecked, Bad Bots can create a conspiratorial society, and this can be mitigated by either Info-Correction Bots or Good Bots; however, Good Bots are more efficient and sustainable than Info-Correction Bots . Proactive good messaging is more resource-effective than reactive information correction. With our observations, we expand the concept of bots as a malicious social media agent towards automated social media agent that can be used for both good and bad purposes. These results have implications for designing communication strategies to maintain a healthy social cyber ecosystem.

社交机器人信息治理模拟实验

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