Researchers at the University of Zurich spammed the r/changemyview subreddit community with AI-generated comments in an effort to prove that LLMs could be used to persuade people to change their views. They did so without permission from Reddit, the moderators of the subreddit, or the members who were emotionally manipulated through their interaction with the comments.

A few points to follow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/comment/mp4vgcm/

#Reddit #UniversityOfZurich #Research #OnlineCommunities #Forums #CMGR

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Who else here misses traditional #forums such as #phpBB based ones and such? I certainly do. I feel like the environment of forums is more conducive to in-depth and nuanced discussion and builds stronger communities. Coincidentally, I also wrote an old PDF article about this same thing a while back.

Social media formats seem to have too much churn by contrast. I like that old discussions can be revived years later on traditional forums and can still have life even years later. That's kind of like the opposite of the drive to always "stay relevant" and "keep posting" that characterizes #social_media in contrast.

Forums also tend to be more #decentralized, or at least they would be if there were more active ones again like there used to be years ago. There are still a bunch of good ones though.

I actually joined a new one today in fact, a writing forum. Hopefully that'll be fun and will connect me to a steadier sense of community.

People on social media platforms barely reply compared to the rate at which people reply on forums, in terms of the ratio of the number of replies each post you make gets compared to the total number of current active users.