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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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dnip.ch broke the news in on Monday, April 28, 2025.
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