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

In a covert study that has ignited fierce legal and ethical debate ... as measured by Reddit's built-in system for awarding opinion changes. To achieve this, the AI tools accessed and analysed ...

Recently, it emerged that a team of researchers at the University of Zurich had conducted a study to manipulate Reddit users ...

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

When Reddit ... research ethics violation I have ever seen, no contest.” What’s more, she and others worry that the uproar could undermine the work of scholars who are using more conventional methods ...

details came to light about a covert experiment conducted on unsuspecting Reddit users on the debate forum known as r/changemyview. Researchers at the University of Zurich unleashed AI chatbots ...