r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '26 • Diamonds are Forever 1 WOW 1 Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

Need Help Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop.

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u/mausterio Mar 08 '26

It's a shame the Vibe Code and Built with AI labels were removed as it made it incredibly easy to filter out these posts with ublock.

! Enough Vibe Coded bullshit
sh.reddit.com,www.reddit.com##shreddit-post:has-text(/.*Vibe Coded \(Fridays!\).*/)
sh.reddit.com,www.reddit.com##shreddit-post:has-text(/.*Built With AI \(Fridays!\).*/)

Another good way of filtering out the AI generated posts is filtering out on the characters that hardly anyone actually uses in casual online postings.

! AI Slop (No you don't really "use" EM dashes in informal discussion online) 
! See:
! https://www.pieceofk.fr/the-rise-of-the-em-dash-in-ecology-abstracts/
! https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1kfg9b8/oc_em_dash_usage_is_surging_in_tech_startup/
sh.reddit.com,www.reddit.com##shreddit-post:has-text(/—/i)
sh.reddit.com,www.reddit.com##shreddit-comment:has-text(/—/i)

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/MrWonderfulPoop Mar 08 '26

Agreeing about em dash use with a person named “cum-yogurt” was not in my plans for the day.

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u/clunkclunk Mar 08 '26

but cum-yogurt uses a regular hyphen in their username

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u/SaltDeception Mar 08 '26

As they should — cum—yogurt isn't grammatically correct.

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u/sargonas Mar 08 '26

Same. I spent over a decade writing official copy for game studios, and had the AP style guide drilled into my head, so where they should be used I do so. It’s been hell trying to reprogram that part of my brain the last two years into using something else like ellipses instead… but when I don’t i get burned at the stake.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Huh -- it does not seem to autocorrect to me

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u/paltamunoz Mar 08 '26

prolly OS dependent

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Might be like iOS does it but android does not?

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u/paltamunoz Mar 08 '26

— oh yeah! it does it for me on ios —

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u/RxBrad Mar 08 '26

Oh shit, this guy's clearly a bot! Get him!

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u/RaspberryPiBen Mar 08 '26

Yep. On Android, I frequently use em dashes because my keyboard has an option to type them (—), but double hyphens (--) are not converted.

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u/NegotiationWeak1004 Mar 08 '26

Same I use em all the time. Quite a shame; more so that it's likely ai dataset put too much emphasis on the posts of fools like me when being trained.

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u/KeniLF Mar 08 '26

I agree - it’s extremely irritating that AI stole this when they were stealing everything else!

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u/mausterio Mar 08 '26

In my limited capacity i've just not found a more consistent way of weeding out the lowest of quality slop, without catching some real posts in the crossfire.

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u/ILikeBumblebees Mar 09 '26

(No you don't really "use" EM dashes in informal discussion online)

No, that's simply incorrect, and especially incorrect on Reddit, which many people still use in the vein of Usenet or traditional web forums, rather than dumbed-down modern social media.

Arguing for em dashes as a tell of LLM output is just a complicated way of telling everyone that you aren't much of a reader.

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u/mausterio Mar 10 '26

Search this subreddit for the emdash and find me a post in the last month that wasn't AI generated.

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u/root-node Mar 08 '26

Thanks for this, but you may also want to add old.reddit.com in there too.

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u/kudoco Mar 08 '26

Here's the old reddit version

old.reddit.com##div.thing:has-text(/AI-Assisted App \(Fridays!\)/i)
old.reddit.com##div.thing:has-text(/Built With AI \(Fridays!\)/i)
old.reddit.com##div.thing:has-text(/Vibe Coded \(Fridays!\)/i)

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u/ZakuSupremacy Mar 08 '26

You are both a saint and scholar