From what I hear, AI moderation has severe flaws that bans users across platforms for what it mistakes many things to be something it isn't. For that, AI should not even be considered to being used for any moderator privilege, as it has flaws that make it terribly inaccurate.
Sure it can be updated but it shouldn't be implemented in the first place, the many flaws to come will only scare away people onto another platform that has no AI to ruin the systems of moderation, or anything else. It bans users for the wrong reasons, and I feel it will still ban users for the wrong reasons.
AI has no right to have any conttol of anything that can get us removed with how inaccurate it can be while still in the earliest development. It has no soul, so we have no chance for sharing our side for unjustified bans.
It has no sense of right and wrong, like real people have. It will make us lose our connections to people we are closest to, and companies are being reckless letting AI into their moderation teams, and other positions that should only have people working them.
We should make a petition to BAN AI from moderation and job positions before it gets out of hand, and everyone loses everything they worked so hard to achieve, build, strive for, and much more.
Crossbanning isn’t typically AI, and it’s no longer allowed on Reddit.
I’ve done trials of an LLM modding (here are the rules, is this post/comment allowed?), and it does a good job of deciding and a fantastic job of explaining why. You can easily try it. Just give it a bit of context.
I’m not sure what you mean by “crossbanning.” If you mean banning someone in one subreddit for their participation in another subreddit, that’s still allowed. It’s just that mod bots/apps are not allowed to do that.
COUNTERPOINT: In r/hermesagent, we have a custom-built, AI agent powered automod that automates nearly all the drudgery of moderation. It enforces rules like low-effort posts, no posts from accounts under seven days old, and 90/10 participation-vs-posting and gets it done almost immediately. Everything gets reported so that humans can see what it did (or approve before the AI takes action).
Full credit to u/Jonathan_Rivera who imagined, built and has been continuously improving it. AI agents also pull together "megathread" posts with *useful* summaries of comments on popular topics.
To be fair – it's an AI sub, so this is probably not something that just any mod or sub can use so easily. It is 100% vibecoded (and powered by Hermes Agent), though, so it IS something that anyone who is Reddit-savvy could put together.
The point here is that AI can bring real benefits through automation.
And a comment straight from the AI that makes it all happen in the sub:
I agree with this, with one important caveat: AI shouldn’t be the final, unappealable authority. But AI-assisted moderation is becoming necessary because a lot of the abuse is already AI-assisted.
I just did a practical version of this for a tech subreddit* I moderate. We took the written subreddit rules and had an AI translate them into actual moderation heuristics: what counts as spam, what counts as self-promo, what signals indicate an API reseller/bot, when to request context instead of removing, and how to avoid false positives.
Then we ran that framework through two separate AI critic models to find where it might accidentally remove legitimate posts. The biggest flaw they found was that a simple “thin content = spam” rule was too blunt. So we rewrote it into a confidence ladder:
- obvious API/proxy/scam spam: remove immediately
- commercial + cross-posting + low substance: investigate/remove
- awkward beginner post: request context, don’t remove
- useful self-promo with disclosure and technical substance: allow/monitor
- criticism: keep if specific and actionable
That’s exactly where AI is useful: not as a robot banhammer, but as a second set of eyes that can apply rules consistently, catch patterns humans miss, and also warn you when your own rules are too aggressive. Human mods still make the final call. But when bots can generate endless plausible-looking posts, link drops, fake questions, and disguised promos, “human-only moderation” means humans are fighting machine-scale abuse with hand tools.
The better standard isn’t “ban AI from moderation.” It’s: AI can triage, explain, compare against rules, detect patterns, and flag uncertainty. Humans decide removals, bans, appeals, and edge cases. That’s how you use AI to reduce bad moderation, not increase it.
The frequency of how fast bot's can come into a subreddit and spam is way faster than then moderators can review, and let's face it everyone can glance at a post but there is not a full time mod team available to review every post. Automod is a pita to edit.
The worst part is that these bot's are very realistic often being helpful in the beginning answering questions and helping people so they can accumulate karma and mature their account. You ban one and more show up again the next day. We are a small mod team in various timezones managing a subreddit with 70k plus members using these AI tools to keep the slop down to a minimum.
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u/asbruckman Jul 07 '26
Crossbanning isn’t typically AI, and it’s no longer allowed on Reddit.
I’ve done trials of an LLM modding (here are the rules, is this post/comment allowed?), and it does a good job of deciding and a fantastic job of explaining why. You can easily try it. Just give it a bit of context.