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 ...

University graduate student’s controversial project raises alarm over digital surveillance and manipulation of online ...

SEE ALSO: Google reveals Reddit Answers is powered by Gemini AI r/changemyview is one of Reddit’s most well-known debate spaces ... the moderators filed an ethics complaint with the University ...

When researchers secretly used AI bots on Reddit to study how AI can influence human opinion it became a landmark moment for ...

A thread on Reddit recently exposed this experiment, and has triggered outrage across the internet and reignited a pretty fierce debate about AI ethics, data consent, and the responsibilities of ...

Reddit's well-known debate community ... how refined and misleading the AI-generated content had grown. While the university's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ethics Commission heard the moderators ...

This unsettling reality recently came to light on Reddit’s “Change My View” subreddit, where researchers deployed AI bots to engage in debates without disclosing their artificial nature.

The subreddit r/changemyview has long been a contentious place for Reddit users to "post an ... researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on the subreddit in a secret ...

In May 2025, three fantasy romance authors faced backlash after readers found unedited AI-generated prompts in their ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that Reddit's human-led communities are what set the company apart. AI bots, however ... "In light of these events, the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Arts ...