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Some Stanford researchers dredged out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero_ humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said yes, you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios to see what the LLM had to say.

Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: the slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.

Edit: preprint on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352

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genAI
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i am laughing so much at the insight of using r/amitheasshole, that is indeed the PERFECT corpus to test this
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@peachymist a lot of AITA posts are written with AI anyway
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@peachymist lmao that’s actually brilliant

especially limiting it to posts that were unanimously called the asshole in replies

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@nautilus i don't doubt it, but i really fail to grasp the motivation for anyone to generate AI text and post to a subreddit like AITA
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@peachymist get a lot of upvotes on an account, then sell the account to marketers
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@peachymist also some posts just seem like thinly veiled fetish material
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@nautilus ooooooh
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@nautilus ah yes, the good old The Authors' Barely Disguised Fetish
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@peachymist also a lot of AITA posts try to hit a calculated bingo of tropes like trans poor vegan fat single mom it's extremely repetitive
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cwboost: ai slop generators nurturing antisocial behaviours
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@hsza thank u for the cw, my brain meltzd and forgot to write one xjxbdb x3

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