The PrismX tool assigns users radicalization scores and can hold covert conversations to try to reverse their views. A ...

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 ...

The report analyzed five prominent bot-creation and character card-hosting platforms (Character.AI, Spicy Chat, Chub AI, CrushOn.AI, and JanitorAI), as well as eight related Reddit communities and ...

Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected to an AI-powered experiment have hit back at scientists for conducting research on them without permission – and have sparked a wider debate about ...

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 ...

Reddit's well-known debate community, r/ChangeMyView (CMV), has become embroiled in an escalating controversy after moderators announced that it had unwittingly hosted a secret AI experiment.