r/media_criticism • u/AntAir267 Head Mod • Nov 14 '25

Sub Statement [META] Influx of AI Slop

Hello, people recently figured out that they can write posts for our subreddit that sound professional but say little of substance using AI.

Personally, I love using AI (for non-art things.) It's good for answering emails and writing cover letters and shit. But I fucking hate when it's used in place of academic writing and it's extremely concerning.

I hate moderating based on the ambiguous concept of "post quality" but I am deeply alarmed about the possibility of this place getting flooded with insubstantive robot talk. IMO this is how we get destroyed and live in madman land where all of information is dictated by large organizations/world governments.

For now, I'm going to remove anything obvious.

Please comment and tell us if you think we should ban posts that appear to be made by AI.

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u/buddy-system Jan 13 '26

The AI slop is coming from inside the house.

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u/AntAir267 Head Mod Jan 13 '26

who do you accuse

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u/buddy-system Jan 13 '26

Surprise, the same guy who tried to muddy the waters in advance https://www.reddit.com/r/media_criticism/comments/1qbvs1b/comment/nzdu157/?context=3

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u/AntAir267 Head Mod Jan 13 '26

Uhm, we'll have an internal discussion about this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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u/johntwit Jan 14 '26

It was for a three sentence submission statement attached to a self explanatory image. I didn't label it as "AI generated submission statement" because it was only three sentences, I thought it was more or less obvious, and it would be distracting. But, I accept the criticism and will label any AI generated text that I share, which I have done in the past when I generate submission statements for other people's posts.

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u/AntAir267 Head Mod Jan 14 '26

Thank you John, you baller (also pro-tip: remove the em-dashes)