Reddit has issued a response to the study as well. Reddit’s chief legal officer Ben Lee posted on the CMV thread:
What this University of Zurich team did is deeply wrong on both a moral and legal level. It violates academic research and human rights norms, and is prohibited by Reddit’s user agreement and rules, in addition to the subreddit rules. We have banned all accounts associated with the University of Zurich research effort.
Reddit is “in the process of reaching out to the University of Zurich and this particular research team with formal legal demands,” Lee said in the post.
Turns out Reddit doesn't like third parties bringing attention to their own AI manipulation strategies on behalf of the DNC.
Turns out Reddit doesn't like third parties bringing attention to their own AI manipulation strategies on behalf of the DNC.
Yea, had they paid Reddit like other AI companies or if they had targeted the "right" people they'd be fine with it,