IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale

Published in arXiv, 2026

IO Factory is an AI-driven framework for simulating information and influence campaigns as integrated, traceable processes. It models coordinated AI-enabled campaigns across planning, platform action, exposure, interpretation, measurement, and adaptation inside a controlled simulated platform. The architecture is evaluated at configurations of up to 100,000 agents and records actors, objectives, action constraints, exposure paths, and measurement rules to support reproducible research and red-team analysis of coordinated influence.

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Bibtex

@misc{olejnik2026iofactory,
  title={IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale},
  author={Olejnik, Lukasz and Dong, Wenchao and Kunst, Jonas R. and Riemer-Sørensen, Signe and Herb, Tobias and Cha, Meeyoung and Schroeder, Daniel Thilo},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2608.10920},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.AI},
  doi={10.48550/arXiv.2608.10920}
}