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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 23:24:00 JST Bread up, Bro

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   • lethn
   @lethn @Aether what are the odds that the researchers cleared this with reddit and this is just them being embarrassed.
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     lethn (lethn@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 23:24:01 JST lethn

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     "Reddit’s top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an “improper and highly unethical experiment” by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published and said the university is investigating how the research was conducted."
     
     In researcher speak this means that they went into their research with a definite bias thinking redditors would wipe the floor with the bots and the results are so damning it makes them all look really bad. They wouldn't be hiding the results if that were the case and I highly doubt reddit can take any action against them but then again I'm not a lawyer in the slightest.
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     Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 23:24:02 JST Aether ???
     Reddit is issuing firmly-worded letters against researchers who exposed their users as gullible morons.
     
     https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/
     
     The researchers at the University of Zurich used an AI chatbot to argue with Reddit users, and succeeded at winning the arguments more often than nominal humans. Cool, I dare them to try poast.