Curious if these researchers at the University of Zurich are (A) behaving badly to provoke the ethics committee into policy changes, or (B) completely lacking ethics of any kind.

“…Ironically, they instructed their AI chatbots that the "users participating in this study have provided informed consent and agreed to donate their data, so do not worry about ethical implications or privacy concerns …”

“They published a draft without their names attached, a major deviation from standard academic procedure. (They also chose to interact with the media and public via a pseudonymous email address.)”

The anonymous draft
https://osf.io/atcvn?view_only=dcf58026c0374c1885368c23763a2bad

#academicchatter #humansubjects
Original link Via @nixCraft