{"id":1382,"date":"2025-04-28T21:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2025-05-02T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:29:52","slug":"anonymous-researchers-used-ai-bots-to-experiment-on-a-reddit-debate-subreddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/anonymous-researchers-used-ai-bots-to-experiment-on-a-reddit-debate-subreddit\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous researchers used AI bots to experiment on a Reddit debate subreddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/anonymous-researchers-used-ai-bots-to-experiment-on-a-reddit_2guk.640.jpg\">Researchers claiming to be with the University of Zurich used AI bots to generate thousands of comments in r\/changemyview.<\/p>\n<p>A group of unidentified researchers, allegedly affiliated with the University of Zurich, conducted a months-long AI experiment on the users of <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/reddit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit\u2019s<\/a> r\/changemyview (CMV) debate forum, according to the subreddit\u2019s moderators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/changemyview\/comments\/1k8b2hj\/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a pinned announcement<\/a>, the CMV moderation team revealed that in March, they were informed \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers claiming to be with the University of Zurich used AI bots to generate thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}