Researchers admit posting fake content on Reddit to influence people

Users were not informed they were interacting (Picture: Getty/Reddit)Reddit users became unwitting subjects of a social experiment, when researchers flooded their forum with AI-generated content to see how they reacted.The bots sent replies posing as real people in r/ChangeMyView, a popular subreddit where users invite counter arguments to their opinions.It was for a research study about how persuasive chatbots could be, in light of concerns they could be deployed to influence elections and pub