Your writing must be your own. If you struggle to write in English, use a translator app to translate your post into English; do not use AI to write your post for you.
And please be aware that bots make insane posts to karma farm. If you see a post that makes you think "that definitely did not happen" please check the post history. Bots will often steal old, inactive Reddit accounts to use to karma farm. So if you see a post that's a year+ old, with no karma and no other Reddit activity, please report it.
And while I have your attention, please be aware that it's the winter holiday. The kids are all out of school and they have nothing better to do than to troll Reddit. Don't get sucked into some ragebait by a bored 14 year old.
EDIT: Thanks to those who have reported AI accounts. Here's some examples of what to look out for: new accounts that post in Blursed Videos and a few other subs that just post generic videos for karma farming. These are AI accounts:
My thoughts? AI engagement bait.
Oh no š I actually use this phrase
Robot!
I use em dashes a lot, I've actually had to tweak my writing style a bit to come across sincere š
Fuck that, Ai will take em dashes from my cold dead hands. I used them before it was around, Iāll use them after itās gone
Hell yeah - that's a great idea! Let's delve into that, together.
(I can't pretend to be AI)
Whatās sad is that AI trains/trained on REAL writing, by good writers, who use em dashes, among other things. Now anyone who writes like an author or a journalist is labeled as AI.
Get outta here, clanker!
Thank you for this. We need more pushback reddit-wide against AI.
Yeah I never bother reading a post when I notice its written with Ai, I always assume its bot slop and move on
This is for the best
Literally all the relationship subs these days. Glad we have push back here.
I get sooo downvoted most of the time for pointing out AI. People looooove to engage with it.
Bots talking to bots
I love your flair!
Thank you!
Please report them all. Reddit has a button for AI abuse. We need to FLOOD them with reports of that so they can learn to filter it better.
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Pushback doesnāt mean witch hunts. It means calling it out when you see it, reporting it, and Reddit acting on those reports.
AI is making the dumb even more dumb. The bubble will probably collapse the global economy. At least we get a lot of ragebait/slop.
I had a post that got flagged I think because I wrote it in my notes, copied it, then pasted it on Reddit. So I think thatās off limits too. It must be typed in Reddit.
Oh that's unfortunate. I often write and re-write a post (not just here, FB and other places too) in Text and then paste it.
I'll try to be more careful because that's exactly what I do
I do that pretty often and havenāt had that problem. I wonder if there is a different trigger.
It said I violated rule 8. So whatever that means. It was something I originally wrote completely.
That doesn't even make sense. It sounds like the mod bot got confused. Did you ask the mods about it?
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Maybe the word hate is a trigger, but that doesn't explain the rule selected.
Same.
Very glad to hear this. AI slop can get fucked.
Glad to read this. The mod team on r/childfree are real ones. Thanks guys!
Could there be a minimum account age requirement too? I've noticed a lot of AI stories that are on super new accounts so if we apply a 30 day minimum age, we can probably filter a lot out, more if a minimum Karma was added I'd bet
Yep, we do have that in place already. :)
Random question, but what about those of us who simply have a structured and formalized natural writing style, that merely happens to get the "this sounds like AI" comments despite that not being so? Case in point, yours truly -- though I also have prior posts/comments here, as well as my overall user account dating back to (I think?) 2016. (Just food 4 thought....)
I always check someone's post history. Bots don't have old, nuanced accounts.
Y'all are rockstars!
Ok, thanks for the update. I was worried about seeing too much AI slop on here. Glad someone is speaking up about it!
I'd upvote this twice if I could. LLMs are poison, doubly so when you understand how they work. Too bad for me, knowing how they work doesn't translate well to being able to clock their slop ("are we not doing phrasing anymore!?").
A good mod team is worth its weight in gold and never gets enough credit for all they do. I appreciate y'all.
There's a Devvit app called Stop AI you can add to your community, it's for text based detection, might be useful.
Oh, good to know, thank you!
Be careful with that though, false positives suck.
I've watched some videos on what are tells for AI posts (em dashes, too many direct quotes, neat paragraphs which start with a sentence that sums it up, ...) and thought I got good at it.Ā
Until I read a post I was 100% convinced was AI. Only to realize it's 11 years old..
There currently is no reliable way to tell if something was generated.
Fuck AI.
Side note PSA when googling you can add -ai after your query and it will remove all AI results and summaries š
I'm very glad this is an issue the mods are aware of and taking seriously. Too many subreddits dgaf and even punish real users when they point out obvious bot posts (not like I'm speaking from bitter experience or anything, that one bird pet subreddit whose name I shall never speak again...)
Thank you.
Reddit is cooked š I just got an account warning for āabusing the report optionā because I report AI pics and ChatGPT when I see them
Thank you.
Are there confirmed AI examples? I need a good laugh atm.
If the formatting looks like a boomer's CV, it's probably written by AI
Lots of ā too š even though I use them, a lot, but I donāt use AI to write posts lol.
I think if the ā separates punctuated beats then it's most likely ai slop. If it just connects two correlated thoughts, that's most probably a human. Real humans don't write the same way the old masters who got scraped did, and it does show if you understand the difference between the linguistic pulse of 40 ~ 60 years ago and today.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is not writing aita posts on reddit... but the ai who was trained on his works doesn't know that.
They're getting wise to the fact that the em dashes are a huge tell. They do still overuse quotation marks, though.
Iāve fully stopped using ā and started doing -- just so I donāt look like a bot. Itās not a huge deal to fix the autocorrect (just Cmd/Ctrl Z when it applies it). Itās how I write. And it looks better than too many ( ) statements.
Editors would probably hate me even though my English GSP is pretty good.
In my native language (Dutch) I never ever saw a single emdash anywhere.
Suddenly they are everywhere along with people claiming they use them all the time...
The source is obvious. Earliest training data was scientific papers. Where they are quite often used while the average person didnĀ“t even know what it was or how it was used.
So if I see a Dutch text with emdash it's basically 100% guarantee written (or rewritten) by AI.
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Thank you for taking a stand against AI!
I'm just wondering, what should we report it as? I see no specific rule in the list that I can use. Maybe rule 1, "low effort"?
It would probably be a good idea to make it its own rule in the list?
We have an open comment section. Just make a note that it's AI, and give a reason why you believe that it is.
How can you tell it's AI if you're using mobile? Might be the way my phone is setup, but I genuinely can't tell.
It's good that they are not allowed now, finally. But also recognizing if a post or comment is AI isn't just about asking yourself if it seems like a real situation that happened, it's about recognizing AI writing style. That's hard for most people to recognize because it's about pattern recognition. If someone never really used it before they would read an AI post or comment like it's "good grammar".
Some ways to recognize AI is to notice if it uses ways to phrase words like "it's not X, it's Y", when X was not even in the discussion. For example, about not wanting kids, AI would say, "it's not selfishness, it's honesty" or "it's not anti-kid, it's self-preservation" and this sort of phrasing is very very common. This sort of dash "---" or this one "--" when putting two sentences together is also common but doesn't always appear, so just because there are no em dashes doesn't mean that it's not AI. Also, AI writes in a very passive and extremely non-aggresive way because AI is trained to never "promote violence" or aguments. It's trained to never offend someone. Even if it tries to put in some emotion it still sounds like a corporation trying to "roast" someone without actually offending the person.
I think adults being unable to recognize the style of AI writing is the same thing as adults being bad with technology and it's crazy
This AI thing is so annoying. Especially given that it trained on actual human writing patterns and speech patterns. Sometimes is so hard to figure when someone genuinely wants to tell their story.
What's the point of karma farming anyway? Imaginary internet points don't pay bills
People buy high karma Reddit accounts. I have no idea why anyone would do that, but they do.
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How can you tell, other than the post having perfect grammar and using punctuation that most people don't use or understand? I'd love to help keep my eyes open, but I have no idea how to tell the difference.
I donāt think the mods can tell if a post is AI lmao.
I can tell that you haven't posted in this community in the last 10 months, so don't underestimate what we know.
Ooooo that gave me chills! In a good way, haha.
Have you officially put this in the rules? Sorry, I don't feel like reading all the rules. I barely slept last night so I'm low functioning rn.
Anyway, if it's not actively a rule here we should make it one.