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Researchers Secretly Unleash AI Bots on Popular 'Change My View' Subreddit
PCMag
An anonymous team from the University of Zurich wanted to see if bots could change someone's mind, but they didn't get permission to use them on Reddit. Mods are livid.
Bots are common on social media, gumming up the replies on viral posts with argumentative statements or nonsensical garbage. But can their musings actually change the minds of the humans on the thread?
Anonymous researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to find out, so they deployed bots in the r/changemyview …
