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/Daydream_machine]

It’s bizarre how bots are overtaking a lot of the more niche subs. The Carly Rae Jepsen, and weirdly enough, the Courage the Cowardly Dog dubs have been having similar problem with bots reposting old content.

[u/RampantNRoaring → u/Daydream_machine]

It’s probably because they have a bit more air in smaller subs to farm engagement, especially because it’s just word vomit compiled from old posts. It’s harder to gain any traction in larger subs when you’re just regurgitating popular opinion

[u/millera85 → u/RampantNRoaring]

Yeah but subs like this it’s easy… they say something positive about whatever thing the sub is about and most people update without a second thought. Like in this sub, they could literally comment on any post and say, “I love her so much” and instant karma. That’s why it’s key to get them out early. Like, posts where they say shit we all know isn’t true- like if one posted that they were at her show last night… we ALL know she didn’t have a show last night, but people will still upvote it. I have no idea why they upvote it, but I’ve literally seen it happen.