Sam Binder

@sambinder.bsky.social

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Update to the researchers who secretly ran a massive unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users by pushing AI bots into a debate subreddit: Reddit is issuing "formal legal demands" against the researchers. University tells us researchers not publishing now www.404media.co/reddit-issui...

Reddit Issuing 'Formal Legal Demands' Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users

Reddit called it an "improper and highly unethical experiment" and said it did not know it was happening.

404media.co

a feature of algorithmic social media is its tendency to infer interests based on your connections to people in-platform, which makes sense on paper and in practice means you're constantly getting pushed almost everything other than the actual topics or concerns you and your friends have in common

*seeing another artist use a measuring tape while hanging their work* you hack, you unbelievable coward *getting the measurements wrong hanging my own work after briefly eyeballing the space* ah fuck, i cant believe youve done this