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.

More below🧵 https://t.co/mZnhj6I9YS

@reddit_lies I feel like we hate on this kind of clandestine experimentation a little too much.

I get the original situations that motivated the taboo we have today, but if you reanalyze the situation from today's context it feels like I would rather be secretly manipulated in random

vitalik.eth

sounds like Bitcoin 

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1917003963385122935?t=GHlH5wvxkB17PaQzPUAjhA&s=19