[LOGOS] Fw: Article that will be interesting to you

Richard Carpiano richard.carpiano at ucr.edu
Wed Apr 30 17:49:12 PDT 2025


Yes, Emiliano: big time. And it isn't like misinfo research (and science in
general) is getting the greatest PR these days with the federal
government/electeds equating it with efforts to intervene on/undermine free
speech. Rich
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM Emiliano De Cristofaro via LOGOS <
logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> My biggest concerns are the lack of convincing arguments that deception
> was societally necessary or any meaningful debriefing/right to withdraw.
> Any reasonable IRB would have not approved this study without (at least)
> these two reassurances.
>
> As someone who has repeatedly been accused (once to my dept chair) of
> posting to 4chan to unethically trigger certain kinds of posts (of course,
> we never posted anything), maybe I'm overly sensitive. But, I do think that
> this kind of PR disaster can significantly reduce societal trust in our
> line of research...
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro
> Computer Science and Engineering
> University of California, Riverside
> https://emilianodc.com
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM Michalis Faloutsos via LOGOS <
> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yikes! See attached...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin M. Esterling (he/him)
>>> Chair of Political Science and Professor of Public Policy
>>> Director, Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy  (
>>> TeCD-Lab <https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/>)
>>> University of California Riverside
>>> Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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>>> https://profiles.ucr.edu/kevin.esterling
>>>
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>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Mark Long <mark.long at ucr.edu>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9:57 AM
>>> *To:* Kevin M Esterling <kevin.esterling at ucr.edu>
>>> *Subject:* Article that will be interesting to you
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/30/reddit-ai-bot-university-zurich/
>>>
>>> See attached.
>>>
>>> [image: image]
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark C. Long, MPP <https://spp.ucr.edu/mpp>, Ph.D.
>>>
>>> Dean & Professor, School of Public Policy
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>> *Michalis Faloutsos*
>> Professor at U. California Riverside Computer Science
>> Co-founder | Programize LLC       | www.programize.com
>> Co-founder | StopTheHacker Inc. | acquired
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