{"ID":2844193,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06033","arxiv_id":"2601.06033","title":"How Generative AI Empowers Attackers and Defenders Across the Trust \u0026 Safety Landscape","abstract":"Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful technology poised to reshape Trust \u0026 Safety. While misuse by attackers is a growing concern, its defensive capacity remains underexplored. This paper examines these effects through a qualitative study with 43 Trust \u0026 Safety experts across five domains: child safety, election integrity, hate and harassment, scams, and violent extremism. Our findings characterize a landscape in which GenAI empowers both attackers and defenders. GenAI dramatically increases the scale and speed of attacks, lowering the barrier to entry for creating harmful content, including sophisticated propaganda and deepfakes. Conversely, defenders envision leveraging GenAI to detect and mitigate harmful content at scale, conduct investigations, deploy persuasive counternarratives, improve moderator wellbeing, and offer user support. This work provides a strategic framework for understanding GenAI's impact on Trust \u0026 Safety and charts a path for its responsible use in creating safer online environments.","short_abstract":"Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful technology poised to reshape Trust \u0026 Safety. While misuse by attackers is a growing concern, its defensive capacity remains underexplored. This paper examines these effects through a qualitative study with 43 Trust \u0026 Safety experts across five domains: child safety, election integrit...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06033","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.06033v2","authors":"[\"Patrick Gage Kelley\",\"Steven Rousso-Schindler\",\"Renee Shelby\",\"Kurt Thomas\",\"Allison Woodruff\"]","published":"2025-11-10T22:00:58Z","proceeding":"cs.HC","tasks":"[\"cs.HC\",\"cs.CR\",\"cs.CY\"]","methods":"[\"Generative Adversarial Network\"]","has_code":false}