Published on: 2025-08-05 00:42:36
Trigger warning for brief references to sexual assault. It’s been discovered that millions of Reddit users were deceived and “psychologically manipulated” by an unauthorized AI experiment performed by researchers from the University of Zurich … The university secretly used AI bots to post in the highly-popular Change My View subreddit, with large language models taking on a variety of personas, including a rape victim and a trauma counsellor. The university disclosed the deception to moderato
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