Researchers at the University of Zurich stirred up controversy when they revealed they conducted a study on whether ...

Amy Bruckman, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who has studied online communities for more than two decades ...

Reddit users are pushing back after discovering they were unknowingly part of a controversial artificial intelligence experiment run by researchers at the ...

The study conducted by the University of Zurich involved deploying AI bots to participate in debates within ... of transparency violated Reddit’s rules and ethical research standards.

University graduate student’s controversial project raises alarm over digital surveillance and manipulation of online ...

PrismX uses keyword searches, assigns ‘radical scores,’ and can engage people in AI-powered persuasion—all without formal ...

A group of unidentified researchers affiliated with the University of Zurich conducted a months-long AI experiment on the users of Reddit’s r/changemyview (CMV) debate forum ... the moderators filed ...

months-long experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview (CMV) subreddit, deploying dozens of AI bots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage in debates on controversial topics.

Reddit's well-known debate community ... how refined and misleading the AI-generated content had grown. While the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ethics Commission heard the moderators ...

One claimed to be a victim of statutory rape, while another claimed to be a Black man who did not support Black Lives Matter.

The subreddit r/changemyview has long been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an ... researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on the subreddit in a secret ...

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