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 ...

A team of unnamed researchers at the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized, months-long experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview (CMV) subreddit, deploying dozens of AI bots ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could be — but did not get permission to do research on the actual humans on Reddit that the AI was interacting with.

Now, Reddit says it is considering legal action. Researchers from the University of Zurich deployed a slew of AI bots posing as real people and engaging with users without their knowledge or ...

The university that employs them has announced that it’s investigating. Meanwhile, Reddit’s chief legal officer, Ben Lee, wrote that the company intends to “ensure that the researchers are ...

Reddit’s Chief Legal Officer, Ben Lee, condemned the University of Zurich researchers for what he called an "improper and highly unethical experiment." In a statement posted to Reddit ...

In a covert study that has ignited fierce legal and ethical debate, researchers from the University of Zurich deployed artificial intelligence bots to covertly influence discussions on Reddit ...

Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected ... were recently informed by the moderators that researchers at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, had been using the site as an online laboratory.