University of Zurich Researchers Conduct Unauthorized AI Experiment on Reddit
- Researchers at the University of Zurich secretly ran an experiment using AI bots on the subreddit r/ChangeMyView for four months, posting 1,783 comments and earning over 100 'delta' medals for persuasion, raising ethical concerns.
- Moderators of r/ChangeMyView filed a complaint with the University of Zurich, emphasizing that the experiment violated subreddit rules, including the requirement to disclose AI-generated comments.
- Reddit's Chief Legal Officer, Ben Lee, criticized the study as 'deeply wrong on both a moral and legal level' and indicated potential legal action against the university.
- The researchers at the University of Zurich claimed their study was ethics-approved and intended to help protect users from malicious AI, despite backlash from the Reddit community.
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AI researchers ran a secret experiment on Reddit users to see if they could change their minds — and the results are creepy
University of Zurich researchers secretly unleashed an army of manipulative chatbots on the r/changemyview subreddit — and they were more persuasive than humans at getting people to change their minds.
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Read Full ArticleResearchers conducted an ethically questionable test on a Reddit forum with millions of users, in which an artificial intelligence pretended to be a human
Researchers at the University of Zurich investigated how well artificial intelligence is able to persuade people to change their minds. Reddit users participated in the experiment without their knowledge.
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