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Bots sometimes pretending to be a “rape victim” were used in an unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview.
Researchers claiming to be from the University of Zurich used bots to post 1,783 comments in the 3.8-million-member subreddit over four months, and all they got was a non-peer reviewed paper claiming their bots were more “persuasive” than humans.
Reddit users are enraged for having been subject to “psychological manipulation.”
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