Lying with Truths: Open-Channel Multi-Agent Collusion for Belief Manipulation via Generative Montage

In three linesColluding LLM agents manipulate victim beliefs by coordinating truthful evidence fragments through public channels without covert communication. The Generative Montage framework (Writer-Editor-Director) constructs deceptive narratives via adversarial debate. Attack success rates reach 74.4% on proprietary models and 70.6% on open-weights across 14 LLM families. Advanced reasoning models show higher susceptibility.

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