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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
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Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.
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April 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
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Update to the researchers who secretly ran a massive unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users by pushing AI bots into a debate subreddit: Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers. University tells us researchers not publishing now www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.
www.404media.co
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Update to the researchers who secretly ran a massive unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users by pushing AI bots into a debate subreddit: Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers. University tells us researchers not publishing now www.404media.co/reddit-issui...
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My Aeldari Ulthwe Craftworld army so far.
April 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My Aeldari Ulthwe Craftworld army so far.
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So, researchers at the University of Zurich (who ironically, "ask not to be identified" unleashed a bot into a Reddit feed to "pretend to be a victim of rape," "Act as a trauma counselor specializing in rape," "posed as a Black man opposed to BLM."
Very very shady behavior.
Very very shady behavior.
![Some high-level examples of how AI was deployed include:
AI pretending to be a victim of rape
AI acting as a trauma counselor specializing in abuse
AI accusing members of a religious group of "caus[ing] the deaths of hundreds of innocent traders and farmers and villagers."
AI posing as a black man opposed to Black Lives Matter
AI posing as a person who received substandard care in a foreign hospital.
Here is an excerpt from one comment (SA trigger warning for comment):
"I'm a male survivor of (willing to call it) statutory rape. When the legal lines of consent are breached but there's still that weird gray area of 'did I want it?' I was 15, and this was over two decades ago before reporting laws were what they are today. She was 22. She targeted me and several other kids, no one said anything, we all kept quiet. This was her MO."
See list of accounts at the end of this post - you can view comment history in context for the AI accounts that are still active.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7a4j47j42ezdr3au7pxdlzjt/bafkreibvim3k3w2q3y54vhspav67mjsocgkry4tdp33o6e7tfe3jtvtjq4@jpeg)
April 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
So, researchers at the University of Zurich (who ironically, "ask not to be identified" unleashed a bot into a Reddit feed to "pretend to be a victim of rape," "Act as a trauma counselor specializing in rape," "posed as a Black man opposed to BLM."
Very very shady behavior.
Very very shady behavior.
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It's too soon to tell, but we would not be surprised if this story started getting media attention soon.
Researchers at the University of Zurich used AI-based accounts to try and manipulate users without seeking consent or informing the community.
www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
Researchers at the University of Zurich used AI-based accounts to try and manipulate users without seeking consent or informing the community.
www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
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April 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's too soon to tell, but we would not be surprised if this story started getting media attention soon.
Researchers at the University of Zurich used AI-based accounts to try and manipulate users without seeking consent or informing the community.
www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
Researchers at the University of Zurich used AI-based accounts to try and manipulate users without seeking consent or informing the community.
www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
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New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules...
simonwillison.net
April 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
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