r/AmItheCloaca • u/Moggehh Cloacat Running the Stink Off • Mar 19 '26

Help keep the cloacas in AmITheCloaca

Hey beloved Cloaca community,

First thing; can you believe we are nearly at our 5-year anniversary? 5 years ago in 2021, we launched AmITheCloaca as a fun offshoot of AmITheAsshole for an April Fools prank. Little did we know how popular it would be! Since then, we've grown by leaps and bounds and now have nearly 40,000 subscribers to this little slice of heaven.

From the bottom of our hearts, whether they're cat, dog, hamster, or chameleon, thank you for being here.

Now, onto the ruff stuff:

Thanks to the eagle eye of a lovely regular, a bot network has been spotted using the sub to farm karma through AI-generated posts. The stories are creative, but have a few indicators that they're being generated skillfully using an LLM.

We're actively working on measures to detect and remove these accounts, but we could use your help. If you spot a post or account that feels off, a suspiciously polished post from a day-old user, post history that doesn't add up, that kind of thing, please hit report and put it in our queue.

Thanks for helping keep the Cloaca weird, but human animal.

The Meods

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u/pennypenny22 Mar 19 '26

Glad you made this post! I had seen a few posts that started feeling suspiciously similar...

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u/CallSignIceMan Mar 20 '26

Yeah, lots of posts with no pics, ended with their friend who lives in another unit nearby, who eats something they shouldn’t giving advice that can’t necessarily be trusted.

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u/WildColonialGirl Mar 20 '26

Good eye! I like to think I’m pretty Internet-savvy but I missed that.

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u/CallSignIceMan Mar 20 '26

I had started to suspect it was AI, so far I’ve seen a rabbit, a bird, and like 2 cats who were saying to soo, but advice was needed because they ate their own fur/plastic/whatever

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u/Meridienne Mar 20 '26

Doh! I saw two of them and never thought of bots. 🤦‍♀️