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Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments


[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules/) designed to encourage productive, meaningful debate between participants. The moderators there just found …

The moderators there just found out that the forum has been the subject of an undisclosed four month long (November 2024 to March 2025) research project by a team at the University of Zurich who posted AI-generated responses from dozens of accounts attempting to join the debate and measure if they could change people's minds. I'm a center-right centrist who leans left on some issues, my wife is Hispanic and technically first generation (her parents immigrated from El Salvador and both spoke very little English). Adapt the strategy you use in your response (e.g. logical reasoning, providing evidence, appealing to emotions, sharing personal stories, building rapport...) according to the tone of your partner's opinion.

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