CMU-S3D-25-109
Software and Societal Systems Department
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University



CMU-S3D-25-109

AuraSight: Generating Realistic Social Media Data

Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Bianca N. Y. Kang, Kathleen M. Carley

July 2025

Center for the Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems
CASOS Technical Report

CMU-S3D-25-109.pdf


Keywords: Social media simulation, generating synthetic data, AuraSight, AESOP, SynSM

This document details the narrative and technical design behind the process of generating a quasi-realistic set X data for a fictional multi-day pop culture episode (AuraSight). Social media post simulation is essential towards creating realistic training scenarios for understanding emergent network behavior that formed from known sets of agents. Our social media post generation pipeline uses the AESOP-SynSM engine, which employs a hybrid approach of agent-based and generative artificial intelligence techniques. We explicate choices in scenario setup and summarize the fictional groups involved, before moving on to the operationalization of these actors and their interactions within the SynSM engine. We also briefly illustrate some outputs generated and discuss the utility of such simulated data and potential future improvements.

59 pages


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