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He R/CHANGEMYVIEW Subnetdit was recently at the center of a controversy after discovering that Researchers from the University of Zurich had conducted an unauthorized study using comments generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
On April 28, the legal director of Reddit, Ben Lee, saying The investigation broke the rules of the platform. He confirmed that all accounts linked to the project had been prohibited and that Reddit was preparing formal legal actions.
THE SUBBEDDIT Moderator Shared on April 26 that the researchers had Posted 1,783 comments generated by AIwhich was intended to be written by different types of people, as a critic of certain social movements and a trauma counselor.
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According to him Draft of the study articleThe answers generated by AI were Custom based on the previous REDDIT activity of usersas political views, age and ethnic history. During the experiment, other users granted 137 “Deltas”, who mark when someone’s opinion has been changed.
The researchers declared that the study helped show how powerful AI models can be when it comes to persuasion. They argued that it was designed to be low risk and that understanding the ability of AI to influence people is important.
After the public reaction, the Ethics Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of Zurich He issued a formal warning to the principal researcher and declared that future projects must involve better communication with participants. However, they noticed that the study’s findings were important enough for the publication to stop would not be justified.
In spite of this, the Moderators of the Subbredit have asked the University to issue a formal apology and to prevent the research from being published.
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