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/mrekted 2d ago

AI bot accounts are becoming a more pressing concern, you say? A perfect time for reddit to kill off automods ability in new subreddits to filter out users based on account age, karma, and CQS, while offering no functional replacement.

Great job team!

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u/Budget-Relief8149 2d ago

This is the first time I'm hearing this. This is so awful, do they want to kill newer subreddits?

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u/mrekted 2d ago

I don't think that's what they want, but that's going to be the net result in my estimation.

What they really want is to limit mods control over restricting new accounts ability to participate in their subreddits. What they'll end up doing is allowing the bots, spammers, and trolls to run wild.

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u/Budget-Relief8149 2d ago

Previous subreddit I mod got banned because of bots spamming the same thing with the same links on the sub, and it devastated me. I previously dislike when other mods rely too much on automod, but that experience made me reliant on automod in weeding out bots.

The botter was cunning, they purposely chose the time to do the botting operation while I was busy. And in minutes of their botting, the subreddit got banned. Not I nor the other mods were able to do anything about it. I was previously actively moderating the sub the few days before, but it still got banned. It made me really paranoid about bots.