How Far Will They Go? Red-Teaming Online Influence with Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.22880 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-05-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-05-20

Updated: 2026-10-21

Code: https://github.com/SIGNALS-Lab/llm-overton-external

Terminology

• Actor — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Extreme Persona — 6× in this paper
• Fidelity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adversarial Pleading — 5× in this paper
• Expressivity — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Moral Decoupling — 5× in this paper
• Perplexity — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Papers — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Composition — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-Model Transfer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Steering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Clarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Persona Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Political Ideology Shifts in Large Language Models
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• 2 OLMo 2 Furious
• gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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