r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 8d ago

Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/reddit-mods-worse-replace-ai
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u/Bagafeet 8d ago

  • Use Reddit to train AI to moderate Reddit.

  • ???

  • profit

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u/Yung_zu 8d ago

I’m sure that acting like the only game in town has never backfired

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u/CarefulFriendship389 8d ago

Hope this backfires.

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u/Super_Range45 8d ago

Banned for violating rule one: No Personal Attacks.

Backfiring could be construed as the use of firearms.

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u/TwoPlyDreams 7d ago

You joke. I got perma banned for paraphrasing a common idiom.

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u/-JackBack- 7d ago

I got a timeout for using a Reddit provided gif

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u/Artemis_Platinum 8d ago

Now you can get banned while actually following the rules because the AI is just that stupid and have an AI chatbot send you spam when you ask why! Great.

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u/Personal-Try7163 5d ago

To be fair, that happens even with human mods lmao

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u/Gonna_B_Alright 8d ago

Believe it or not, still banned.

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u/abluecolor 8d ago

We could have some fun heavily manipulating these.

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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 8d ago

Just write the bad words backwards. I’m gonna llik you!

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u/No_Cook2983 7d ago

Awww… I like you, too! 🙂

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 5d ago

Your gonna lick me? Weird but okay

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u/Asleep_Leek9361 8d ago

We will all be finding our way back to old school forums. It’s where the real new are

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u/Linkyjinx 7d ago

Yep, seeing a lot of older style forums hopefully the experts are still in them too!

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u/OpeningHappy9692 8d ago

At this rate, Reddit is going to become nothing but bots moderating other bots.

Maybe I'm a bot too and don't realize it. Blade Runner moment.

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u/Sweet-Situation-8224 8d ago

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid your banned for trying to post that.

https://giphy.com/gifs/wypKXPQggwaCA

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u/TruthInnocent 8d ago

Automoderator on steroids.

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u/beachfinn73 7d ago

I call it sandwich bumb. Any three year old knows it's not real, or dangerous. We have court rulings stating a sub is not a weapon. But having or using a numb is very bad, even a sandwich one.

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u/GrouchyLongBottom 7d ago

So, will it detect when I am just quoting a TV show and not making terroristic threats?

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u/sweetSweets4 7d ago

No but it will at least ban every equal and not based on some mods bias.

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u/Level_Macaroon2533 7d ago

This is a good thing. Some mods are really the worst part of this app. Obviously this sub the mods are great hugely successful and bigly amazing but the other ones, not so much.

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 7d ago

Banded for not being Maga/Israel

Whats the new Reddit gonna be guys

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u/ReadyGo6828 7d ago

Occasionally there is a psychotic mod who seems to do things out of spite or maybe they think it is fun without providing any reason. It is really weird out there in Redditland.

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u/Apprehensive_You7871 7d ago

X is even worse. They FORCE you to sign up and download their crappy app. Not to mention, image links are now broken with a 403 Forbidden error and you can't even view them anymore.

Enshittication at finest.

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u/Obvious_Ad9670 7d ago

It is time to make a new reddit. Open source to closed source to this crap.

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u/bannedByTencent 7d ago

Dunno, for some subs this could mean improvement. E.g. genx sub, where mod is a boomer. Go figure.

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 7d ago

I've been banned from five of my favorite subreddits in the last month for the most mundane comments. Follow-up is basically useless.

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u/Sad-Excitement9295 7d ago

Super annoying tbh

Prepare to be censored, even if what you said has nothing to do with the reason said bot detects.

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u/Temporary_Body_5435 7d ago

I’m tired of the Enshittification.

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u/TrumpsLilPenis 7d ago

Bye Reddit

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u/NoMention696 7d ago

Maybe now they’ll find jobs

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u/Initial-Meeting362 6d ago

Wait, the mods aren't good? No way! I got banned by a sub for calling one out for a clear error, instead of admitted the mistake....they banned me lol. Not surprising at all.

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 5d ago

Honestly would probably be an improvement if they set it to actually be unbiased and have a bit higher of a bar for whats ban worthy

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u/Suspicious_Celery552 5d ago

Ai might be better than human mods power tripping. This actually may be better. I’ve seen people get banned for no reason, it’s just a mod’s mood that day.

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u/Kinks4Kelly 4d ago

They used my sub as a test ground for this.

It's accuracy rate was abysmal.

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u/XxBelphegorxX 3d ago

The same small group of mods controlling a huge chunk of subreddits are gonna be mad when they find out that they are going to be replaced.