Zurich Uni’s secret AI experiment manipulated Redditors’ opinions

Researchers at the University of Zurich have been accused of undertaking an unauthorized four-month-long experiment on a Reddit board using artificial intelligence-generated comments to test whether AI could alter people’s opinions.  As part of the experiment, AI-powered accounts faked a variety of personas, including a rape victim, a person opposed to specific social movements and a trauma counselor specializing in abuse, moderators of the r/changemyview subreddit said in an April 26 post. “Our sub is a decidedly human space that rejects undisclosed AI as a core value,” the moderators said. “People do not come here to discuss their views with AI or to be experimented upon source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/zurich-uni-secret-ai-experiment-manipulated-redditor-opinions?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound