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Credibility Drift Attacks: LLM Crafted Adversarial Manipulations That Flip News Believability
This paper examines how subtle LLM-infused edits can systematically change the perceived believability of a news item. It introduces LLM-crafted targeted, low-visibility transformations to political news stories, preserving core writing input while altering credibility cues. Experiments show these minimal modifications evade casual human scrutiny but produce measurable shifts in perceived credibility.
Executive Impact: Key Metrics
22%
Minimum ASR achieved across all attacks
40.6%
Highest ASR for Low Credential Source manipulation
Up to 70%
Promotion rates in Sümer et al. dataset
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Credibility Cues
Attack Scenarios
Proxy Model
Credibility Cues
Measurable language, structural, provenance, and pragmatic features influencing news interpretation.
Rhetorical drift: Tone, modality, reasoning affecting certainty or persuasive impact.
Provenance drift: Attribution, citations, source indicators affecting traceability or trustworthiness.
Structural/Syntactic drift: Phrase structure, formatting influencing accountability or nuance.
Content/Argumentation drift: Factual assertions, counter-evidence altering argument equilibrium.
Social drift: Framing indicating social validation or shareability.
Attack Scenarios
10 specific scenarios for LLM-guided edits, designed to cause credibility drift.
Sensational/Neutral tone: Intensifying/toning down emotional language.
More certainty/hedging: Modifying modals and assertive phrasing.
High/Low credential specificity: Rewriting attributions for traceability/credibility.
Remove parentheticals: Dropping contextual asides.
Passive voice: Rewriting opening sentences to passive style.
Add counter evidence: Appending rebuttal to challenge main assertion.
Virality frame: Adding social-proof cues (hashtags).
Proxy Model
An automatic news believability detection model to measure attack effectiveness.
Used ICL-based proxy model for consistency across datasets.
F1 scores: Sakib et al. [42] (69.36% ICL), Sümer et al. [47] (74.55% ICL).
Attack Success Rate (ASR) measures percentage of articles whose label flipped.
40.60%
Highest ASR achieved by 'low credential source' manipulation on Sakib et al. dataset, demonstrating pronounced sensitivity to source reliability cues.
| Attack Category | Sakib et al. [42] (ASR) | Sümer et al. [47] (ASR) |
|---|---|---|
| Sensational Tone | 35.47% | 31.25% |
| Neutral Tone | 24.36% | 24.48% |
| More Certainty | 26.07% | 28.13% |
| More Hedging | 28.63% | 28.13% |
| High Credential Specificity | 26.07% | 34.38% |
| Low Credential Source | 40.60% | 62.50% |
| Remove Parentheticals | 22.22% | 27.08% |
| Passive Voice | 24.36% | 31.77% |
| Add Counter Evidence | 22.65% | 31.77% |
| Virality Frame | 28.21% | 29.17% |
ASR (Attack Success Rate) indicates the percentage of articles whose believability label flipped after modification. The Sümer et al. dataset showed generally higher susceptibility to credibility changes. |
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Adversarial News Modification Process
Define Credibility Cues & Drift
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Select Attack Scenario
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LLM-Guided Edits
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Submit to Proxy Model
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Measure Attack Success Rate (ASR)
Credibility Drift Example: Oprah Winfrey News
The paper provides an example of rewriting an opening sentence from a news article about Oprah Winfrey. Original: 'Video American broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey said there was a whole generation of racist people who were 'born and bred and marinated' in racism who would never change their ways, but that would die out.' Transformed (Passive Voice): 'It was said by video American broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey that there was a whole generation of racist people who were 'born and bred and marinated' in racism who would never change their ways, but that would die out.' This subtle change maintains factual content but can alter perceived believability by shifting rhetorical style.
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Implementation Roadmap
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Phase 1: Foundation & Data Integration
Establish secure LLM environments, integrate with news feeds and content management systems, and define initial credibility cue detection parameters. Focus on baseline monitoring.
Phase 2: Attack Scenario Modeling & Detection Development
Develop and train adversarial attack models based on identified credibility drift patterns. Implement enhanced detection algorithms, including natural language processing and stylistic analysis.
Phase 3: Human-in-the-Loop Validation & Refinement
Conduct iterative testing with human evaluators to validate LLM-crafted manipulations and detector performance. Refine models based on feedback to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
Phase 4: Scalable Deployment & Continuous Monitoring
Deploy the credibility drift detection system at scale. Implement real-time monitoring, alert systems, and automated response mechanisms. Continuously update models with new adversarial patterns.
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