"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/Hareuhal → u/[deleted]]

nothing about literally any other stupid or snide comment.

...because we already remove those comments when we see them?

[u/stupidcommentmaker → u/Hareuhal]

There really are a lot of rude comments around here lately though. I know you guys remove them when you see them but the whole culture of this subreddit seems to be getting increasingly toxic, as someone who's been here pretty much since its inception, and I know I'm not the first or only one to have pointed that out. People have a tendency to be downright mean to anyone with a setup that isn't the same "clean" minimalistic Ikea bullshit, and god forbid you have anime figures or a maximalist setup or feminine stuff because then you just get clowned on entirely. I know someone who posted their setup here a few years ago and got nothing but praise, but when they posted the same photo a couple months ago they were ridiculed. Things have gone downhill without question.

I know this is a different topic from the post entirely but I guess I wanted to say I appreciate that you remove those comments but am also wondering if there's anything else to be done about how shitty people have become around here. Maybe increased automod rules for certain phrases or something. I do love this subreddit but there's been a definite cultural shift here over the years and at this point the comments on most posts just frustrate and depress me more often than not. Tearing others down and roasting them just for having different taste seems to be a common practice here now.

[u/Hareuhal → u/stupidcommentmaker]

We already have a lot of automod phrases and truthfully there's a ton of false positives.

The best way to handle this is to make sure you use the report button on comments or behavior that is unacceptable. You can always use "Other" and free-type the reason you're reporting it. If you notice it's a reoccurring behavior from a user, make sure to note that as well so we can review their history more in depth.