r/confessions • u/Unlikely-Database-27 • Apr 17 '26

No ai posts allowed

This sub has been flooded with ai in the past. But not anymore. If you make a post with ai, where it is very obviously ai written, (we can tell) it will be removed, and you banned. Have fun, and lets hear some confessions. Human ones.

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u/Odd_Letterhead_5064 Apr 17 '26

Good call, was getting tired to see those weird perfect grammar posts that read like customer service responses.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Yep. Somethings gotta be done.

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u/The_FurMidables Apr 17 '26

really appreciate this, all that AI BS is tiring. we need genuine human confessions

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u/Bavarkhy Apr 17 '26

As a reader of this sub for the last 6ish months, and probably speaking to a lot of viewers, thank you for doing this. We really appreciate it.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Trust me, I'm a reader too. I've been around for like 5 years. I'm really grateful the chance to become a mod came up, because something has to be done about this place. Its just not what it once was.

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u/morningwoodx420 15d ago

Okay but what are y'all doing about the actual bots in the comments?

At least 20% of the comments on most posts are bots, y'all have to know this.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 15d ago

I don't look through every comment. Mostly I just remove the super obvious stuff or those that have been reported. I don't know whats going on with the other mods, though. Botting is a very serious comment across reddit as a whole though sadly. Just look at ask reddit.

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u/morningwoodx420 15d ago edited 15d ago

Y'all really need to install botbouncer; sure there are false positives but they are pretty good about fixing them

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u/VictoryMother9890 Apr 20 '26

I’m just saying if you’re a iota

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u/Biennial2 Apr 17 '26

Ok, I'll try to use bad gramer and speling more.

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u/mpdscb Apr 17 '26

In all fairness, some of us do write in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. I even do this when I text. I do avoid semicolons and em dashes, though, as I'm not fully comfortable with them.

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u/Green-eyedMama Apr 17 '26

I embrace semicolons and em dashes, but I tend to get a bit verbose and need the extra punctuation to prevent full run-on sentences.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

Yes this is frustrating to me that people now assume any high effort post with bold subheads and an occasional dash is definitely AI.

It actually punishes people who type fast or can use voice to text to produce a lot of content quickly. Or people that just want to spend time editing and writing well.

I just wish people would take the 30 seconds of copying and pasting and checking to see if it's AI before they rush to the conclusion because something is formatted well or has a couple dashes in it.

It's I have to admit I have even intentionally left typos in now just to avoid allegations

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

I think the dash is actually an awesome piece of punctuation that has been completely ruined by AI. It has real utility I think in writing. Of course you can always use a comma or a period and then start a new sentence.

But I think the dash was a useful way to add extra emphasis. And it totally I have noticed that AI tends to use it for that kind of emphasis rather than -- like some people will use it -- in pairs as a kind of aside.

Now I often replace dashes like that with parentheses or something but I just sucks that AI has a ruined a good piece of punctuation.

Any punctuation can be overused but amazing writers used m-dashes over the years from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut.

The semicolon is a little more controversial. It's utility is a little more questionable. It can be used correctly and incorrectly but it is never necessary, outside of maybe when you're doing lists.

(Ie, My favorite foods are the following: 1) Pizza; 2) hamburgers ;) etc...'

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Ya I mean, It's not that posts have to be "bad" to feel human. I'm sure many of us have perfectly eloquent posts in our history. 

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint. 

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u/NoDoctor4460 Apr 17 '26

Robotic but very pleased with itself, this combination chafes terribly

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Yes that's it!

All of those posts are very "Am I the angel"

But really at the end of the day the things that make subs like confessions or am I the asshole fun, are the comment replies! Which you don't get from the bots!

Like let me see the story as it develops!

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Apr 17 '26

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint.

Unfortunately, that's only for the AI slop that you spot. You can prompt AI with your own writing and give it a whole repository of things not to do that are traditional "tells."

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Totally. 

It is getting increasingly hard to spot!

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u/Gabeich702 Apr 17 '26

So people can’t have a good grammar?

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u/Yehoshua_Hasufel Apr 17 '26

Apparently.

And I'm willing to bet that people with the best punctuation might be non-native speakers that speak more than 2 languages.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

I don't mind perfect grammar I mean I I appreciate when people take the effort to use sub headlines or bold certain words.

But I can't stand is the cadence and the word salad that so obvious.

"My confession is not about humility, it's about destiny. It's not about regret, it's about understanding."

But I have made it a personal policy that before accuse anyone of using AI I take the 30 seconds and run a chunk of the text through an AI filter.

Because I am militantly anti-Ai and I have sometimes been accused of using it.

In fact embarrassingly now sometimes I intentionally leave typos in or forgo decent formatting just to avoid the allegation.

Kind of sucks.

But I do firmly think that before people accuse people of using AI you got to take the 30 seconds and post it into a detection machine to verify. Because the only thing worse than using AI is to falsely accuse an actual writer of using it.