Reddit users thought they were debating real people. Instead, they were unwitting subjects in a secret AI study, and they're not happy about it. Researchers from the University of Zurich quietly ran a ...

A group of researchers covertly ran a months-long "unauthorized" experiment in one of Reddit’s most popular communities using AI-generated comments to test the persuasiveness of large language models.

Trigger warning for brief references to sexual assault. It’s been discovered that millions of Reddit users were deceived and “psychologically manipulated” by an ...