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   Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 19:25:45 JST Rimu

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   • tante

   @tante From the executive summary of the results:

   > All our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.

   Hard to see democracy surviving this.

   #AI

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     tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 19:25:47 JST tante

     A team from the University of Zurich manipulated people on a subreddit for months with their AI bots to see "if they could change people's minds". Their bots pretended to be victims of sexual assault, pretended to be black people against the Black lives matter movement etc. massively maipulative shit. And they did not inform anyone. Nobody on that subreddit consented to being experimented on.

     Their excuse "psychological manipulation of OPs on this sub is justified because the lack of existing field experiments constitutes an unacceptable gap in the body of knowledge".

     When I say that I don't believe that academia is a huge help in us curbing the negative effects #AI will have, this is what I mean. The thing went through ethics boards and shit. Disgusting.

     https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/