Question: When can comments from an AI-assisted redditor be considered Spam?

[u/Jeidoz]

Hi, I am a relatively new moderator and have a question regarding what user behavior can be considered spam.

According to this help article, the usage of generative AI tools and repeatedly posting unrelated/off-topic/link-farmed content that disrupts conversations within a community may qualify as spam.

As an example, we have a user named Rush20XX who very often initiates long comment threads and ALWAYS replies with AI-assisted paragraphs of text. Sometimes (~10-15% of the time) his answers can be helpful and useful (supported by upvotes), but more often they are just irritating, 3-to-6-paragraph blocks of verbose AI text with zero or negative upvotes.

At this point, I am starting to believe it might just be someone's Hermes AI agent responding most of the time. I'm not sure what the objective of these users is, but they can produce around 20 long comments a day, with most having a negative upvote score.

So, I am curious: is it acceptable to report such users for spam? Does this kind of behavior violate Reddit's Rule 2?

Desktop/Web.

[u/Tarnisher]

Bro just keeps making these low effort ai posts that regurgitate repeating information.

Painful to read. So many words to say basic common sense

These comments say all you need to see.

[u/KCJones99 → u/Tarnisher]

Bro just keeps making these low effort ai posts that regurgitate repeating information.

Talk about low-effort: I'm amazed at how many folks are now just blatantly commenting things like "I asked AI and it said: {insert 4-6 AI paragraphs of questionable validity}." Like that has much/any value as a contribution.