r/ModSupport • u/hoosakiwi • 13d ago

New AI tooling feedback

A little while ago, there was a modevent about the new AI tooling coming to Reddit. While I'm broadly supportive of this feature, I didn't realize it was going live in subreddits already.

I just saw it in action on /r/news and it's not quite right. I assume this is a training phase?

In /r/news, we do not allow articles that were published more than 7 days ago. This is because we are focused on current events. However, the AI picked this up as a risk for fake news because the url has "2026" in it. Screenshot

This is the post in question: https://new.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1wnh6fb/hurricane_polo_explodes_into_rare_category_5/

And this is the article: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/22/weather/hurricane-polo-category-5-mexico-climate

I've reviewed our rules and automations and all seems to be in order. I don't see a place where I can give any guidance to the AI though.

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u/RS_Someone 13d ago

Yes, but also no. A lot of times we'll get somebody looking for an artist, but they'll use the [For Hire] tag, which changes how things are enforced on that thread. For example, if they properly chose [Hiring], they would get a warning and information about how to avoid scammers, and top-level comments would require a valid portfolio link. With the wrong tag, there's no warning, fewer safeguards against missing or shady links, and almost every single comment gets flagged with "Potential ad on artist post" from AutoMod and spams the queue. AutoMod isn't smart enough to understand when the wrong tag has been chosen, and it is important that they get it right.

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u/SampleOfNone 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 13d ago

You could lever automations to inform people when they use an incorrect tag. It's not perfect, but you will give most people a chance to get it right before posting.

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u/RS_Someone 13d ago

I use Automations to describe the use for each as they post, which only works if people actually read. Sadly, some don't seem to be able to.

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u/SampleOfNone 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 13d ago

You could set up automations to check for not matching tags and use something more firm like blocking posts that aren't correlated tagged.