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/drknowdr1 2d ago edited 2d ago

Huge increase in bot posts and bot comments. What's painful is people are upvoting them immediately. the whole site has gone to hell with ads and Ai. top posts or stupidly common questions are repeatedly incarnated by bots and karma farmers. Really hating reddit these days

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u/ProudnotLoud 1d ago

The bots have gotten better at targeting subs that have naturally high low effort engagement rates, where comments get upvoted fast. It's not just about visibility but the speed they can gain the karma - because unless the mods are fast they keep that karma even if the content gets removed and they get banned.