The CMV Mod Team needs to inform the CMV community about an unauthorized experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich on CMV users. This experiment deployed AI-generated comments to study how AI could be used to change …

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an "unauthorized," large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to resear…

Reddit responded on April 28 to news that a group of researchers had conducted a secret experiment using artificial intelligence chatbots in one of its most popular forums. The actions of those involved in the experiment have raised questio…

On April 26, moderators of r/ChangeMyView, a community on Reddit dedicated to understanding the perspectives of others, revealed that academic researchers from the University of Zürich conducted a large-scale, unauthorized AI experiment on …

Reddit is raising the alarm about what it called an "improper and highly unethical experiment" by a group of University of Zurich researchers, who secretly deployed AI bots on a popular forum to study how artificial intelligence can influen…

When Reddit rebranded itself as "the heart of the internet" a couple of years ago, the slogan was meant to evoke the site's organic character. In an age of social media dominated by algorithms, Reddit took pride in being curated by a commun…