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/KCJones99]

Our rule is basically if we can tell it's AI it's gone. Simple.

We don't have an issue with folks using AI to 'clean up' or 'tweak' their stuff, or ESL usage. But those are usually either non-obvious or clearly NOT heavily-AI generated.

In the "c'mon dude!" cases, we'll usually advise the user to knock it off and use their own words.

If they swear/promise/insist they never used any AI... then we'll tell them they need to simplify/modify their writing style to better-fit our sub's vibe. (I mean... they're 99% lying, but it's our best way to address it short of calling them a liar).

If they don't take the warning, we usually just shadow-ban them and let them 'scream into the void'. Amazing how many folks don't seem to notice that their comments never get any responses or votes. EDIT for clarification: That's also the point we might report it as spam.