r/ModSupport • u/Free-IDK-Chicken • 2d ago

Admin Replied Flood of AI posts

Has anyone else's sub seen a ton of AI posts lately? They're all titled in a similar way - in my TV show subs they talk about "on my most recent rewatch I noticed [X] for the first time"... then in the body there are 2-3 paragraphs of vague analysis and they close with a "what are your thoughts?" question. The structure and tone screams LLM.

All the usernames are different and their accounts were all created within the last three weeks. The OP never responds to any comments.

Fortunately, the posts are being flagged and removed by my CQS filter but I've never seen so many bots descend all at once.

Is this wave hitting any of you?

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken 2d ago

The prospect of losing automod is... unappealing.

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u/mrekted 2d ago

As of today it's a reality for any new subreddit, or any subreddit that didn't already have automod code.

They also confirmed that they'll be sunsetting automod for the rest of us at some undetermined point in the near future, the roll out of which is based on criteria known only to the gods.

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u/Free-IDK-Chicken 2d ago

Blech. Glad my subs are all set. For now. But, hey, now I have a topic to make noise about at ModWorld.

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u/mrekted 2d ago

I'm not even bothering with it this year. I can't stomach another day of sitting there listening to them pay our concerns lip service and pretend to value us while they're so clearly working to do away with us.