"Reddit users who were experimented on were not informed and neither were the subreddit’s moderators or Reddit administrators."
The researchers even lied to their own AI, telling it in the prompt: "users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data."
The researchers even lied to their own AI, telling it in the prompt: "users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data."
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Advancing Research on Conflict (ARC) Consortium
So much wrong here, starting w/ a non-consensual, deceptive researcher intervention into an online community that could have permanently shifted that community's dynamics & caused multiple harms. There are ethical ways to use deception, but consultation, debriefing, & do no harm are paramount.
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