Thursday, May 01, 2025

AI is Persuasive on Reddit

Web news:
Hey folks, this is u/traceroo, Chief Legal Officer of Reddit. ...

What this University of Zurich team did is deeply wrong on both a moral and legal level. It violates academic research and human rights norms, and is prohibited by Reddit’s user agreement and rules, in addition to the subreddit rules. We have banned all accounts associated with the University of Zurich research effort.

The university did a study showing that AI bots were much more persuasive that humans on Reddit.

If you are having an online discussion, you might be talking to a bot.

Forget about whether it is ethical. Get used to it. There is no going back. It will not stop just because some company lawyer writes a tough letter to a university.

Meanwhile, the hot internet memes are Italian brainrot and whether 100 unarmed men could defeat a gorilla. Actually, the original question used a word that I cannot repeat here.

No comments: