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Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments
(www.engadget.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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I'm glad both the mod team and reddit itself are pursuing legal action and formal complaints, this was scummy when Facebook did it, it still is when researchers do it.
Why though, why don't we want this to be publicly known. What is scummy here.