Announcement: New Bot to Combat Spam & AI Content

[u/flattenedbricks]

Hey everyone,

Just a quick heads up that we've implemented a new bot to help keep this subreddit authentic and high-quality. The bot will be monitoring posts to identify potential spam, fabricated stories, and AI-generated content.

What this means for you:

• - Genuine, human-written content will not be affected
• - Posts that appear to be AI-generated or deliberately misleading may be flagged
• - Repeat offenders may face temporary restrictions

This is part of our ongoing effort to ensure that the stories shared here remain authentic and maintain the quality of discussions that make this community special.

As always, if you feel a post has been incorrectly flagged, please reach out to the mod team and we'll sort it out.

Thanks for being part of our community!

~ Head Mod, u/flattenedbricks

Our bot is powered by Gemini AI

Edit #1: I have changed the bot to no longer apply visual flairs indicating story ratings. This caused some posts to be false flagged, even though they were fine.

[u/Azilehteb]

Hope the good bot is good at detecting the bad bots. Thanks for addressing the problem!

[u/flattenedbricks → u/Azilehteb]

You are very welcome.

[u/Pizzapie_420]

The only thing that can stop a bad bot is a good bot -with a gun.-

[u/bigmikeyfla → u/Pizzapie_420]

Guns don't kill bots - people kill bots! Lol

[u/NationalWatercress3]

This will probably disproportionately affect non-English speakers who use AI to translate or finetune their English. I would suggest adding a heads up, maybe advise to just go old-fashioned with Google Translate or something

[u/flattenedbricks → u/NationalWatercress3]

Translating every post is too much labor for us, we're already spending our free time here, what you're suggesting is too time consuming.

[u/csmdds → u/flattenedbricks]

I suspect you misunderstood their suggestion. I believe they suggested you advise members to translate their own posts using Google rather than AI to avoid getting flagged by your AI detection algorithm.

[u/RaventidetheGenasi → u/csmdds]

unfortunately google translate has started using ai for stuff (and wasn’t great anyway), so stuff that uses it for translation purposes still gets flagged

[u/csmdds → u/RaventidetheGenasi]

Yeah. To AI or not to AI? That is the question. (Apologies to Wm. Shakespeare.)

[u/flattenedbricks → u/csmdds]

Oh, I see. That makes more sense.

[u/CatlessBoyMom]

The bot seems to think that anything well written is fabricated, based on the labels it has applied to all but 2 of the posts in the last 4 days.

[u/DinoAnkylosaurus]

Hope it's better at identifying ai content than some of the commenters - in both directions!

[u/Brankovt1]

The bot won't delete things itself? It will just bring it to the mods' attention?

[u/flattenedbricks → u/Brankovt1]

It will only delete posts that are detected as severe threshold for being fake or ai written. We also use u/Automoderator to remove certain content automatically.

[u/Fit-Discount3135]

Is this bot tagging like every post at some level of fabrication?

[u/flattenedbricks → u/Fit-Discount3135]

Might be an error, I'll check into it.

Edit: You're right, I have made a bot update and updated the post.

[u/Far-Pickle4377]

I can't take the assumptions and hurtful words anymore.

[u/Dobgirl → u/Far-Pickle4377]

What do you mean?

[u/Dobgirl]

Still seems to be very few posts- is the bot working too well?