Recently, scientists from the University of Zurich conducted what I think is a very interesting experiment.

They tried to find out to what extent "bad actors" can successfully use AI bots to persuade people in online discussions.

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To do this, they created accounts for the bots on Reddit (the largest online forum platform). They were given a certain portrait and a story, and a rather peculiar one at that (one of the bots represented an imaginary black man who had been raped and opposed the popular Black Lives Matter movement).

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