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Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As was pointed out in the actual reddit discussions, ChangeMyView has a strict "do not accuse the other person of being a bot or troll" rule. So the whole "no one knew it was a bot" part has very little merit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

I thought that sounded fishy. It's common knowledge that everyone on the internet except for you is a bot so a contentious discussion on reddit without anyone accusing one of the primary commenters of being a bot seemed questionable without that bit of additional information.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

lol, good to know!