BREAKING: The University of Zurich has been using AI bots to secretly manipulate Redditors since November 2024.
The scariest part?
The bots were 6 times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation.
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@reddit_lies @maxmustermann Reminder that the AI bots were "changing" the minds of Redditors by using far-left rhetoric. Basically they programmed bots to be even more radical-left than Reddit is. Good job Zurich!
What they did was the equivalent of me going to a Poast user who says Jews control America, and telling them "no, you're wrong, Jews control the entire world!", and then the Poast user "changes his mind" and says "you know what, you're right, Jews do indeed control not just America, but the entire world".
@maxmustermann @reddit_lies
Yup. Also completely invalidates their research and the whole purpose of these bots in the first place. They tried to argue that the bots were good at changing people's minds, but what they were doing in fact was reinforcing people's belief system.
But what can you expect from social scientists. They can't even formulate their experiments right.
