• Shawdow194@fedia.io
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      11 days ago

      Yeah how do they know they were interacting with real users and not another researcher/troll bot?

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      Read the article instead of responding to the title. It was a university conducting formal research, which created AI bots that impersonated different identities. “As a black man…” style posts in ChangeMyView.

      The subreddit mods issued a formal complaint to the university when they learned of it, but the university is choosing not to block its publishing on the grounds of lack of harm.