It’s time to deal with the AI bot accounts
Hey all,
As many of us have noticed, there’s been a big influx of bot accounts posting “funny” stories in this sub lately. I don’t know what they’re for- harvesting conversation data maybe, not sure. But it’s pretty bad.
It’s sad that many in this community seem unable to catch the tells, as well, but I suspect this sub probably has a lot of less tech-literate folks than average on Reddit and I guess that’s playing out.
Here’s a good example- but I’ve seen these every single day lately: https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/s/d2xRxd6PEm
This is a brand new account, zero karma, zero other contributions on the site, and the writing is exactly the kind of pithy, “funny” AI slop that many of us have grown accustomed to seeing.
This sub needs a combination of karma/account age requirements. I get that this may be a place people come for help in a pinch, but I think we also have a responsibility to keep our active members from being abused by these bots as well (ie unknowingly being used to train them, etc).
I don’t expect the admins to be able to keep up with all of these, but Reddit has tools to stop these kinds of accounts from posting and I really think they need to be enabled.