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Secret Reddit Experiment Using AI Personas Sparks Ethics Scandal in Academia
A team at the University of Zurich created AI personas claiming to be trauma counselors and political activists. It didn't go ...
Reddit Mods Accuse AI Researchers Of Impersonating Sexual Assault Survivors
Research on AI persuasiveness denounced by Reddit moderators for ethics breaches involving alleged impersonation of sexual ...
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University of Zurich in trouble, uses AI Bots to shape and manipulate Reddit users minds without consent
On Monday, Reddit Chief Legal Officer Ben Lee issued a statement calling the research “deeply wrong on both a moral and legal ...
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AI-Powered Bots Secretly Invade Reddit's r/ChangeMyView in Controversial Study
Reddit's r/ChangeMyView hit by AI bot scandal as University of Zurich researchers ran secret mind-changing experiment without ...
Reddit is bringing AI-powered translation to India, starting with Hindi; Bengali to be added soon
Reddit first introduced the AI-powered translation tool early last year, adding a feature that allowed users to translate ...
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
When the user contacted Cursor support, an agent named "Sam" told them it was expected behavior under a new policy. But no ...