Reddit Threatens to Sue Researchers Who Ran "Dead Internet" AI Experiment on Its Site
The subreddit r/changemyview has been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an opinion" and "understand other perspectives." But not every user posting on the forum was a human. As 404 Media reported on Monday, University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on the subreddit to investigate whether the tech could be used to quite literally change people's minds. It was a contentious experiment, with bots claiming to be rape survivors, or opposing the Black Lives Matter movement. Worse yet, separate AI models scoured the opposing (human) user's post history to be […]
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