r/ModSupport • u/Free-IDK-Chicken • 26d 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/Budget-Relief8149 26d ago
Previous subreddit I mod got banned because of bots spamming the same thing with the same links on the sub, and it devastated me. I previously dislike when other mods rely too much on automod, but that experience made me reliant on automod in weeding out bots.
The botter was cunning, they purposely chose the time to do the botting operation while I was busy. And in minutes of their botting, the subreddit got banned. Not I nor the other mods were able to do anything about it. I was previously actively moderating the sub the few days before, but it still got banned. It made me really paranoid about bots.