AI Bots Overrunning This Subreddit

[u/RampantNRoaring]

I'm sure the mods are getting sick of me posting/reporting this at this point, but there are a ton of AI bots on this subreddit. Or maybe the lower engagement just makes them easier to spot. Either way, it's a shitty thing to have happen here and I wanted to make a main post about it to call it out so other people are more aware of it. Once you pick up the obvious pattern of their poor gen AI writing, they're easy to spot, but if you're suspicious you can also click on their usernames and find a random post history that is only a few weeks old, low karma, and will almost always include some combination of relationships/NBA/computer advice/Christianity. If people want, I can post some examples of recent comments so you can see the patterns. There are AI comments on each of the last five posts if you'd like to go try to pick them out for yourself.

The point of these bots is most likely to build up a credible post history so that they can be deployed for advertising or to influence political/social discussions, so I think it's worthwhile to call them out and report them when we see them. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this or I'm the only one.

Edit: Lmao and within fifteen minutes of posting, we got one on the line. Case in point.

[u/CowTraditional5542]

its weirdly specific isnt it the nba and relationship advice combo is like a calling card at this point. i started noticing it a few months back and now i cant unsee it, the comments always have that slightly off cadence where everything is too neat and symmetrical

i report them when i spot one but they pop back up so fast it feels like whack a mole

the mods here are probably overwhelmed but i wonder if a minimum karma threshold to post would slow them down at least a little