A group of researchers with the University of Zurich recently used AI to run an unauthorized AI experiment on Reddit users—and many are crying foul.

In posts on Reddit and in a draft of their paper, the researchers said their research had been approved by a university ethics committee and that their work could help online communities like ...

Reddit slams ‘unethical experiment’ that deployed secret AI bots in forum. The platform’s chief legal officer called out the University of Zurich team that deployed bots on r/changemyview to ...

Researchers from the University of Zurich deployed a slew of AI bots posing as real people and engaging with users without their knowledge or consent to try to change minds on the popular Reddit ...

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 ...

Technology Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent. Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University ...

Reddit is one of the last places on the internet where posts and comments don't feel like an endless pit of AI slop. But that is starting to change, and it's threatening what Reddit says is its ...

Reddit sued Anthropic on Wednesday, accusing the artificial intelligence start-up of unlawfully using the data of Reddit’s more than 100 million daily users to train its A.I. systems.. The ...