Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

• SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not when disclosure ruins the experiment. Nobody was harmed or even could be harmed unless they are dead stupid, in which case the harm is already inevitable.

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  • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You do realize the ends do not justify the means?

    You do realize that MANY people on social media have emotional and mental situations occuring and that these experiments can have ramifications that cannot be traced?

    This is just a small reason why this is so damn unethical

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    • SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don’t have an intense fear of the words “justify the means”? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn’t have enough trouble. Yo not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.

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      • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        you are being beyond silly.

        in no way is what you just posited true . unsuspecting nd non malicious social faux pas are in no way equal to Intentionally secretive manipulation used to garner data from unsuspecting people

        that was an embarrassingly bad attempt to defend an indefensible position, and one no-one would blame you for deleting and re-trying

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