The platform’s chief legal officer called out the University of Zurich team that deployed bots on r/changemyview to study how AI can influence opinions.

In recent months, a group of researchers conducted a secret experiment on Reddit to see how artificial intelligence can be used to influence human opinion.

A group of researchers from the University of Zurich appears to have secretly conducted an unauthorized AI experiment on Reddit users, violating community norms, ethical standards, and possibly even breaking the law.