silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours ago‘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.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1506arrow-down113
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minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down3·11 hours agoI was unaware that “Internet Ethics” was a thing that existed in this multiverse
minus-squarepeoplebeproblems@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·10 hours agoNo - it’s research ethics. As in you get informed consent. It just involves the Internet. If the research contains any sort of human behavior recorded, all participants must know ahead of it and agree to participate in it. This is a blanket attempt to study human behavior without an IRB and not having to have any regulators or anyone other than tech bros involved.
I was unaware that “Internet Ethics” was a thing that existed in this multiverse
No - it’s research ethics. As in you get informed consent. It just involves the Internet.
If the research contains any sort of human behavior recorded, all participants must know ahead of it and agree to participate in it.
This is a blanket attempt to study human behavior without an IRB and not having to have any regulators or anyone other than tech bros involved.
Bad ethics are still ethics.