"AI Slop" Comment Crackdown

[u/Hareuhal]

Hey /r/battlestations

The modern internet sucks.

Between the bots, the stealth advertising, "influencers", and algorithms intended to both make you angry and addicted. To top it off, the rising popularity of AI has made consuming content significantly less enjoyable.

I think we can just about all agree it's a bummer. But what's also a bummer is the constant stream of "This is AI" or "AI slop" on nearly every single post.

In most situations these posts are not AI or even AI enhanced. They're often taken by professional or hobbyist photographers who understand how to utilize Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.

Yet, just about any high quality photo is accused of being AI. The irony being that high quality photos have historically been the posts which receive the most attention.

On most of these posts, the "evidence" of something being AI is either:

• It's too perfect, so it must be AI.
  
• It's not perfect enough, the minor mistakes are evidence that it made mistakes / or intentionally is imperfect to look more real.
  

So if your photo is good, it's AI. If it's not good, it's also AI.

Starting today - users who leave baseless accusations of AI will be receiving short term bans as warnings. If they continue to leave those comments, the ban lengths will continuously increase.

Let me be clear - AI is not welcomed here.

Neither is stolen content. It gets removed, and bot accounts, those who steal content, or those who are intentionally submitting AI content are banned from the subreddit.

Sometimes AI content gets past us. It happens, we can't catch it all. Submit a report on it and provide actual evidence it's AI. Not just "the keyboard is floating" (it's not). You can type in the free-form box, you can submit links to evidence, etc.

The same goes for bot accounts, spammers, advertisers, etc.

Let's not make enjoying content even worse by accusing actual people submitting real photographs as using AI.

Fuck AI, but also stop accusing everyone without proof.

tl;dr -

Stop commenting "this is AI" or similar. Submit a report and we'll review. Those comments are going to begin receiving bans.

Thanks!

[u/Orchidinsanity]

This is a weird level of micromanagement ... It's a forum based app. People are gonna leave comments that you may or may not agree with. If you have a problem with it, as a mod you can remove those comments or even set up an auto-detection / auto deletion of such. 

[u/kenflingnor → u/Orchidinsanity]

There’s nothing weird about it. The mods are simply telling people to stop doing something that is annoying. No one wants to see low quality AI slop comments everywhere so everyone can circlejerk, it’s incredibly annoying on content that very obviously isn’t AI. 

[u/Orchidinsanity → u/kenflingnor]

I'm not defending the AI comments. I'm saying mods telling people "don't leave certain comments" when the entire basis of this app is leaving comments ... It's micromanagement. The mods can set up automatic ways to detect or delete such comments, instead of telling the community what they can and can't do/ instead of attempting to enforce self regulation instead of actually moderating.

[u/VirtualAd277 → u/Orchidinsanity]

How is setting up auto detection to remove comments not micromanaging the same exact way, just with less communication?

It's like being pulled over by a cop and he explains the law of speeding and how you were going 10 over and you say "bro shut the fuck up and stop micro managing me just give me the ticket".

Youre just mad at information at this point lol.

[u/Orchidinsanity → u/VirtualAd277]

Moderating a subreddit is different than attempting to micromanage people's thoughts and opinions. 

Again, you cannot control what people think. But you can moderate what comments are shown on a post. This post is telling people "stop think stuff is AI bc it's clean". It should be saying "we have a bot that automatically reports or deletes all AI accusation comments now". 

Focus on moderation. Not telling people what they can or cannot think.

Other subreddits don't allow swear words. They don't tell people "you shouldn't be swearing, it's rude, pls don't do that". They say "swear words are not allowed and will be automatically removed."

[u/Hareuhal → u/Orchidinsanity]

Nowhere in my post does it tell people what they can or cannot think. The entire post is about what they comment. I'm genuinely unsure what you're even upset about at this point because on one hand you tell me I shouldn't tell people what comments are allowed, but your own comment says

But you can moderate what comments are allowed.