Researchers from the University of Zürich conducted a large-scale, unauthorized AI experiment on a Reddit community "without the Reddit community's knowledge or consent, and the bots were not labeled as AI." Specifically, "Reddit users were unknowingly exposed to sometimes deceptive AI-generated content designed to shape their opinions - raising significant ethical and transparency concerns." I don't believe such research would pass scrutiny on the Research Ethics Board I am a part of, although it apparently passed the researchers' own ethics board. "When told the project met institutional ethics standards, moderators disclosed the study to their shocked and outraged community. Reddit banned the associated accounts and issued a statement condemning the activity." This article contains more commentary and numerous links. Via Ben Werdmuller.
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