Great. Now what about all the other bots on the site?
Researchers from the University of Zurich secret unethical experiment deployed AI-generated comments on Reddit to study how AI could be used to change views.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.zip
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DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Was it people or bots who were impacted
potoo22@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Unethical, but insightful. The bot took on fake identities and made up lies that strike at people’s emotions to change their views. Unethical because it can manipulate real people (or other bot accounts) using made up facts or scenarios. Insightful because other bots are already doing this; they’re just not disclosing it. There are more ethnical ways to run this study. This was just the cheap and easy way.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What ethnic was the AI?