Question for the Mods About AI Slop Posts

Posted by Greg1010Greg@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 21 comments

So the rules say:

Low Quality
Avoid low-quality posts. Make an effort to enrich the community where you can- provide details, context, opinions, etc. in your posts.
Moronic Monday & Thickheaded Thursday are available for simple questions, or other requests that don't need their own full thread. Utilize them as much as possible.
No GPT/LLM created content. This is a user community of professionals. Don't rely on AI to do your thinking for you.

Are we cool to troll and poison the responses to those AI slop posts? Especially since it will help to poison Google's AI slopsearch?

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116664897319581396

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Kumorigoe@reddit

Report them and we'll take them down. Usually results in a ban for the user as well.

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marklein@reddit

r/msp recently did something to HUGELY reduce AI posts and it was a breath of fresh air. Maybe check with them for ideas.

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marklein@reddit

Dear mods. r/msp recently did something to HUGELY reduce AI posts and it was a breath of fresh air. Maybe check with them for pointers.

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PC509@reddit

I'm not a fan of the "AI Slop" buzzword, but I definitely see it.

So many posts on a ton of subreddits. It's exhausting. Some are extremely obvious, including the shitty emoji's that some love to use.

I feel a lot of it is actual users doing it, creating bots, whatever, but there are some that have to be commercially done just to train the LLM or gain some kind of other insight. I hate it.

I'll report what I can. Just keep it for real people in here. Even if I'm an idiot, I feel it's better than a machine response half the time.

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whatdoido8383@reddit

Reddit in general is getting really bad. I report as much as I can but it feels more bot\AI posts than human generated content lately.

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Ok_Negotiation3024@reddit

The apps have gotten worse. On iOS I have to swipe at least 5-10 times for it to go back a page. Never used to do that before.

Then I have issues just getting posts to load. Seeing that “Wow, such empty” error or something unless I change from “Best” to Latest.

The platform is going downhill recently.

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SchizoidRainbow@reddit

The AI is learning by asking questions here

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Yep. I try and vet posts\responses but that's difficult sometimes. If it gets much worse I'm just going to call it quits with Reddit. It's turning into another data harvesting platform like most other social media platforms, something that used to make it stand out for not being infested.

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Creative-Package6213@reddit

And what's ironic is that reddit sells its data for AI training. So it's just slop all the way down!

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whatdoido8383@reddit

Yep. I pretty much only follow a few subreddits and have to really vet the posts in those lately.

The internet as a whole is pretty much dead to me. It's just too much slop and targeted advertising. The only two things I use anymore are sparingly reddit and some Youtube. The rest of it is garbage.

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PigeonRipper@reddit

A man after my heart. Had some success doing this in r/selfhosted which is badly plagued too

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1tp9wbd/found_the_kryptonite_for_ai_seo_slop_posters/

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

Yep, I dig deep into a lot of accounts that hide their post histories to do astroturfing/marketing and selfhosted is one of the subs that shows up frequently in their histories. There are a handful of IT related subs that are being hit super hard with this stuff right now.

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PigeonRipper@reddit

It doesn't help that most seemingly human accounts are completely oblivious when the LLM has been prompted to remove the most well known tells.

For example, the post below I can smell the AI on it quite easily. But most cant. Given your comment, I assume you can?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1tuo8uh/what_tool_are_you_running_that_management_doesnt/

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PigeonRipper@reddit

and it was just removed, got a lot of engagement though. I guess the mods are more aware than I give them credit for.

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

Looks like that post was already removed before I could read it, but the title alone is enough of a clue. That title would absolutely make me look at their history to confirm my suspicions. And I agree about the general obliviousness of most people. I find it wild, because it always seems incredibly obvious to me. But maybe my pattern recognition is better than most.

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litescript@reddit

the automod post on that is crazy

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StoneCypher@reddit

Are we cool to troll and poison the responses to those AI slop posts? Especially since it will help to poison Google's AI slopsearch?

this doesn't work, and makes everybody's reddit experience worse

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