{"id":14901,"date":"2025-04-29T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T14:49:33","slug":"reddit-users-secretly-manipulated-by-ai-in-shocking-psychological-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/de\/2025\/04\/reddit-users-secretly-manipulated-by-ai-in-shocking-psychological-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit-Nutzer in schockierendem psychologischen Experiment heimlich von KI manipuliert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forscher der Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich f\u00fchrten heimlich und ohne Zustimmung der Nutzer ein mehrmonatiges KI-Experiment in der 3,8 Millionen Mitglieder starken Reddit-Community r\/changemyview durch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eine Forschergruppe der Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich f\u00fchrte ein mehrmonatiges, verdecktes Experiment durch, bei dem KI-generierte Kommentare eingesetzt wurden, um Reddit-Nutzer ohne deren Wissen oder Zustimmung zu beeinflussen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Das Experiment fand am statt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/changemyview\/\"><span class=\"s1\">r\/changemyview<\/span><\/a>, ein Subreddit mit 3,8 Millionen Mitgliedern, das f\u00fcr seine zivilisierten Debatten bekannt ist. Die Forscher setzten es ein. <span class=\"s1\">gro\u00dfe Sprachmodelle (LLMs)<\/span> personalisierte, \u00fcberzeugende Antworten zu verfassen und sich dabei als echte Personen auszugeben, um zu sehen, ob KI die Ansichten der Nutzer ver\u00e4ndern kann.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Die Details<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Um die \u00f6ffentliche Meinung zu beeinflussen, wurden KI-generierte Kommentare ver\u00f6ffentlicht, die sich als echte Nutzer ausgaben.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zu den dargestellten Personen geh\u00f6rten Trauma\u00fcberlebende und umstrittene politische Stimmen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Die KI nutzte aus dem Nutzerverhalten extrahierte pers\u00f6nliche Daten, um \u00fcberzeugende Antworten zu erstellen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keine der Aktivit\u00e4ten wurde offengelegt.,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/changemyview\/wiki\/rules\/#wiki_rule_a\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Versto\u00df gegen die Regeln dieses Subreddits und die Regeln von Reddit insgesamt.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hier ging es nicht nur um Bots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Es handelte sich um psychologische Manipulation unter Verwendung pers\u00f6nlicher Daten, um zu testen, wie effektiv KI sein kann. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/changemyview\/comments\/1k8b2hj\/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving\/?share_id=fNoQ3xhzEWVihi6K6n8Uy&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Die Meinung der Menschen \u00e4ndern.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investor.redditinc.com\/governance\/board-of-directors\/person-details\/default.aspx?ItemId=c994983e-fef3-4f55-8b65-58e4790fb48a\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reddits Chefjustiziar Ben Lee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Er nannte es \u201csowohl moralisch als auch rechtlich zutiefst verwerflich\u201d und best\u00e4tigte, dass Reddit formelle rechtliche Schritte vorbereitet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14902 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1057\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-1171x878.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/dailyai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/brett-jordan-0FytazjHhxs-unsplash-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1057px) 100vw, 1057px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foto von <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@brett_jordan?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brett Jordan<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> auf <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/red-and-white-8-logo-0FytazjHhxs?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsplash<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>Die Verteidigung der Forscher<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sie behaupten, ihr Ethikrat habe das Projekt genehmigt, und argumentieren, ihr Ziel sei es gewesen, aufzuzeigen, wie KI missbraucht werden k\u00f6nne, um Wahlen zu manipulieren oder Hassreden zu verbreiten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWir glauben, dass der potenzielle Nutzen dieser Forschung die Risiken deutlich \u00fcberwiegt\u201d, schrieben die Forscher.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Die Gegenreaktion<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Die Moderatoren von r\/changemyview waren emp\u00f6rt und bezeichneten die Studie als \u201cunerw\u00fcnscht\u201d und \u201cmanipulativ\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users\/\">Sie haben eine Beschwerde eingereicht.<\/a> und forderte die Universit\u00e4t auf, die Ver\u00f6ffentlichung der Studie zu verhindern. Dieses Experiment offenbart eine wachsende Bedrohung: KI-gest\u00fctzte Beeinflussung in gro\u00dfem Umfang, ohne Einwilligung. Es zeigt, wie leicht Menschen beeinflusst werden k\u00f6nnen, wenn KI ihre \u00dcberzeugungen kennt und ihre Mitmenschen imitieren kann.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reddit-Nutzer wurden als Testpersonen eingesetzt.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dies war nicht nur eine akademische \u00dcbung. Es zeigt, wie m\u00e4chtig und subtil KI-Manipulation sein kann, insbesondere wenn sie vertrauensw\u00fcrdige menschliche Stimmen mithilfe pers\u00f6nlicher Daten imitiert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Da generative KI immer weite Verbreitung findet, <span class=\"s1\">Das Risiko einer KI-gesteuerten Manipulation ist nicht l\u00e4nger theoretischer Natur.<\/span> Es ist echt, und es ist gerade in einer der gr\u00f6\u00dften Online-Communities passiert.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nun wehrt sich Reddit, eine der weltweit gr\u00f6\u00dften Online-Communities.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forscher der Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich f\u00fchrten heimlich und ohne Zustimmung der Nutzer ein mehrmonatiges KI-Experiment in der 3,8 Millionen Mitglieder starken Reddit-Community r\/changemyview durch. Die Forschergruppe nutzte KI-generierte Kommentare, um Reddit-Nutzer ohne deren Wissen oder Einverst\u00e4ndnis zu beeinflussen. Das Experiment fand auf r\/changemyview statt, einem Subreddit mit 3,8 Millionen Mitgliedern, der f\u00fcr seine sachlichen Debatten bekannt ist. Die Forscher setzten gro\u00dfe Sprachmodelle (LLMs) ein, um personalisierte, \u00fcberzeugende Antworten zu verfassen und sich dabei als echte Personen auszugeben. Ziel war es, herauszufinden, ob KI die Ansichten der Nutzer ver\u00e4ndern kann. Die Details der KI-generierten Kommentare, die als echte Nutzer ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurden, zeigen, wie die Meinungen beeinflusst werden sollten. Zu den verwendeten Personas geh\u00f6rten unter anderem Trauma\u00fcberlebende.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reddit Users Secretly Manipulated by AI in Shocking Psychological Experiment | DailyAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyai.com\/de\/2025\/04\/reddit-users-secretly-manipulated-by-ai-in-shocking-psychological-experiment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reddit Users Secretly Manipulated by AI in Shocking Psychological Experiment | DailyAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Researchers from the University of Zurich secretly ran a months-long AI experiment on Reddit\u2019s 3.8M-member r\/changemyview community without user consent. 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