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    James R Kirk@startrek.website to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 month ago

    Researchers secretly infiltrated /r/changemyview with AI bots

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    Researchers secretly infiltrated /r/changemyview with AI bots

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    James R Kirk@startrek.website to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 1 month ago
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    Researchers secretly infiltrated a popular Reddit forum with AI bots, causing outrage
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    Reddit is considering legal action after a group of researchers had AI bots pose as real people without users’ knowledge. The researchers say they will no longer publish their study.
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      “They’re doing publicly what we are doing in secret, except they are doing it ethically! This is unacceptable! We are strongly considering suing!” - u/Spez, apparently

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      Reminiscent of the University of Minnesota project to sneak bugs into the Linux kernel.

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