Original Work Gets Flagged as AI Slop by Bots and Audiences
28 posts across 16 communities in the last 30 days; 39% from r/Philanthropy.
“You need to set a karma limit in order to post here. There have been multiple posts now by obvious bot accounts that are multi year accounts with 0 karma and 0 contributions where their post (obvious fake posts too) here is their first ever. r/askreddit has the same issue…”
“the four data points are all the same experiment, which is why they gave you the same number. same category of sub, same launch frame, audience of people who are also launching. you didn't run four tests, you ran one test four times. the thing your point 1 gets right and then…”
“The instant downvote isn't personal, some subs have bots that hit new posts, and separately a lot of readers vote on the shape of a post within about two seconds of seeing it. Which is the useful part: the shape is the problem, not the content. You've described yourself as…”
Content creators are experiencing a growing problem: their original work is frequently and publicly accused of being AI-generated or stolen. This leads to frustration, wasted time defending their authenticity, and a loss of trust from their audience. The need to prove originality is becoming a significant burden.
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“The upvote sellers are so predictable, every single launch gets those emails within the hour. The permanent page angle is the right way to think about it though, most people burn energy refreshing stats that don't matter past day one What did you use for…”
“This is a karma bot [re: How do you maintain autonomy in your day-to-day work?]”
“Karma, profile views, and to dilute his account activity with non-promotional material to abide by the 9:1 self-promotion rule. His company is selling AI automated spam as a service. Besides, the typical AI comment that parrots back everything the parent comment said is not providing any value to the discussion. "Glad to hear" and "appreciate your feedback" are disgusting phrases generated by a bot with the sole purpose of getting profile views -> website visitors. Shit li”
“that's a thing? i didn't know. must be a thing people who say "karma farming" do [re: WHO APPROVED THIS AND WHY??]”
negative karma farming is a thing? [re: WHO APPROVED THIS AND WHY??]
“Hahahaha just be proud of what you've done and share you happiness/experience that's it, Fyi I still have no idea what I am doing, the more you fuck around the more you find out so just do”
“Does this mean anything if I already have 5 points in that area already? Does it help me at all? submitted by /u/iwastouchedbyanangle [link] [comments]”
“Dear fellow HNers: I said my account has a max karma of 32767, and I'm about to hit that limit. So, for my final post, I'd like to share some of my individual aspirations:* Be honest. We shouldn't lie, manipulate, dark-pattern, etc. We should invest towards a society that can trust each other, and the first step is our own behavior.* Be reliable. We should make things that work, follow through on promises, represent prospects in good faith, etc.* Be helpful. We should help colleagues, rando”
“yep, distribution without something worth distributing is basically worthless”
“Agreed, I overstated the position effect in my first reply. I haven't controlled for topic or thread age in that sample either.”
“You need to set a karma limit in order to post here. There have been multiple posts now by obvious bot accounts that are multi year accounts with 0 karma and 0 contributions where their post (obvious fake posts too) here is their first ever. r/askreddit has the same issue because they have no karma limit and they are LITTERED with bots and fake stuff all day everyday. I would hate to mute this subreddit, because in the sea of BS posts here there’s actually some good ones, but if the bot posts ar”
So you agreed to do it for free and now you want money for it?
“From our users but I wasn’t lying in the post. At the time I submitted it I checked and there were NO active users on the site. We got some new visitors earlier due to my earlier submission on r/BuyFromEU https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1wixxxz/everiot_european_reddit4chan_hybrid_we_have_0_ads/”
“This sub is getting over run by 1 month old bots. submitted by /u/OE_PM [link] [comments]”
“those launch subs are basically a graveyard, everyone posting and nobody reading it's like screaming into the void and hoping the void has a credit card”
“the four data points are all the same experiment, which is why they gave you the same number. same category of sub, same launch frame, audience of people who are also launching. you didn't run four tests, you ran one test four times. the thing your point 1 gets right and then walks past: if two rewrites return identical numbers, the copy isn't the variable, but neither is the surface on its own. what changes the number is showing up where someone already has the problem, not where people”
“Essentially what it is. Google just summarized the highest upvoted answers since the last time a similar question was asked.”
“When I scroll on this subreddit I see dozens of posts with people who need support and how many upvotes do they have? Zero. How many comments? Zero. When people post here looking for support they want someone to at least acknowledge their presence. When you ignore them it tells them they aren’t significant enough to be acknowledged, telling them they don’t matter. Despite this apparently their struggle isn’t tragic enough to grab your attention. I will tell you that no matter what your struggle”
“genuinely at the end of the day, as long as you are being honest with yourself and honest with your audience you can have almost any motivation. passion. money. boredom. whatever. as long as your audience knows and you know. that’s what matters. just don’t pretend to be something you aren’t and your viewers should find you”
“A nice picture on a nice background, no real proof, nothing. Like an ad, because I bet, it's actually an ad.”
Analyzing user profile... Time between account creation and oldest post is greater than 4 years. Suspicion Quotient: 0.15 This account exhibits one or two minor traits commonly found in karma farming bots.…
“can we now please stop this? https://outbidloloutbid.lol/ submitted by /u/Ambitious-Prompt-975 [link] [comments]”
“250k votes is no joke, that kind of organic traction doesn't just show up for every random trend site what's interesting is the media picking it up without you pushing it, that's usually a sign there's something to work with. most projects in this space have to beg for coverage and you're getting it handed to you. the keanu thing is funny but also shows people actually care about the results i'd lean toward bigger media property if you can figure out how to keep it from f”
“What Karma do you need to have to post your project here ? I have 53 karma it’s taken weeks since I joined up”
“r/Songwriting , 44k members. Mods pulled the post for market research but the comment thread survived - it's all on my profile, 30+ comments of songwriters working me over. Best free product research I've ever done.”
“How am I entitled for expecting SUBSCRIBERS - people who volunteered to keep up with my content - to engage with said content? It takes less than 30 seconds to comment. I didn’t ask them for a million dollars lol. I made a video essay about a slightly controversial movie which is why the lack of comments was even more surprising.”
Analyzing user profile... Time between account creation and oldest post is greater than 1 year. Suspicion Quotient: 0.15 This account exhibits one or two minor traits commonly found in karma farming bots.…
“After launching my app on Product Hunt, I started getting a surprising number of emails from people offering to sell upvotes. Most of them were charging somewhere around $1–$2 per upvote, with different packages depending on how many votes you wanted. It was pretty eye-opening because, from the outside, Product Hunt rankings can look completely organic. But once you launch, you quickly realize there’s an entire little market around paid upvotes and launch-day promotion. submitted by”