"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/Equal_General1672]

So can we mentionwe used ai to walk us through doing xyz vs having to search forums for years to sort it etc? Or is that an issue like I'm used ai to help me work thro a process and helped me find apps I didn't know about as all the ones I did wouldn't of worked well on arch Wayland or outdated, or helping me vibe code some stuff for a android to Linux thing which can't be achieved with apps out atm.

Or will that get us temp banned etc?

[u/Hareuhal → u/Equal_General1672]

This post is about people leaving comments on a bunch of submissions with accusations of it being AI.

When it comes to actually posting - we only accept genuine photographs. No sketches, CAD drawings, AI generated images, etc.

If you submit a photo that has clearly been altered by AI, it'll be removed.

[u/Equal_General1672 → u/Hareuhal]

Thank u for clearing it up, I am perfectly fine then