# Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on/27258
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**Created:** 2025-05-03T23:07:53Z
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## Post 1 by @anonymous261 — 2025-05-03T23:07:53Z

> **[Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on...](https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/)**
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> The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

[https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5aN4Xg0VvCs](https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5aN4Xg0VvCs)

In a way, this is kind of a privacy breach, even though one can assume AI already rummages through most every public online discussion.  
This isn’t Reddit and is significantly smaller, so hopefully no one will be on to me! /s