Researchers at the University of Zurich wanted to see how persuasive AI could be — but did not get permission to do research on the actual humans on Reddit that the AI was interacting with.

Reddit Answers, the company’s AI-powered chatbot that surfaces verbatim answers and summaries from existing Reddit posts, is for the Seekers. And early results suggest it is already gaining ...

Traditional infrastructure monitoring services, which once relied heavily on manual oversight and static thresholds, are increasingly incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to meet modern demands.

Reddit's well-known debate community, r/ChangeMyView (CMV), has become embroiled in an escalating controversy after moderators announced that it had unwittingly hosted a secret AI experiment.

Researchers at the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized experiment on the popular Reddit community r/ChangeMyView (CMV), using AI-powered accounts to test the persuasive ability of large ...

A team of unnamed researchers at the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized, months-long experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview (CMV) subreddit, deploying dozens of AI bots ...

AI was used to target OPs in personal ways that they did not sign up for, compiling as much data on identifying features as possible by scrubbing the Reddit platform. Here is an excerpt from the ...

Reddit Answers, in India. The tool helps users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant comments and existing posts. The feature had been in beta since December 2024 and was available ...

Reddit Answers is now available in beta The AI chatbot is currently available in English Reddit's Answers feature picks information from Reddit posts, comments ...

The answers also include relevant post links and conversation threads. The company first launched this feature in the United States December 2024. Reddit Answers is an AI-powered tool, which is ...

Reddit Answers is the new entrant in the Generative AI sector, competing with rivals like ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Grok and Gemini. However, similar to X’s Grok, Reddit is largely trained on its ...