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[Michalis Faloutsos]

I am neutral about this.
In my mind, it does go over the line of acceptable use of Reddit: they were
engaging with users and changing their opinions without explaining that
this is an AI bot etc.
If Reddit allows this for one institution, the platform could become
infested and some bots may not be as researchy and pure as, presumably,
this study seems to be.

Michalis

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 10:11 AM Kevin M Esterling <kevin.esterling at ucr.edu>
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/30/reddit-ai-bot-university-zurich/
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