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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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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Researchers 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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