US EditionUniversity of Zurich Researchers Conduct Unauthorized AI Experiment on Reddit
- Researchers affiliated with the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized AI experiment on the Reddit forum r/changemyview, using bots to engage users without consent.
- The moderators of r/changemyview filed an ethics complaint requesting disciplinary action and a public apology after discovering the experiment, which lasted four months.
- Reddit's chief legal officer, Ben Lee, condemned the experiment as "improper and highly unethical," stating it violated moral and legal standards.
- In response to the incident, the university's Ethics Committee plans to implement stricter oversight and community coordination for future research studies.
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A controversial experiment on Reddit reveals the persuasive powers of AI
Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could be -- but did not get permission to do research on the actual humans on Reddit that the AI was interacting with.
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.
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.
For a research project, researchers at the University of Zurich invented fictitious individuals, including their résumés and families, and let them comment on specific topics on Reddit. Basically, it is an analysis of how to best implement propaganda using AI – and it is completely disguised as an opinion of ordinary fellow citizens. The AIs were supposedly not unmasked by real people as such. Indeed, social media have long been interspersed wit…
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