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Reddit’s AI filters blocked me, banned me, muted me — all for using my own words (www.reddit.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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I tried to post on Reddit without AI assistance, and the platform punished me for it. Auto‑removed, auto‑banned, auto‑muted. No human review, no appeal, no accountability.

Reddit’s AI moderation is so broken that it flags real people as bots, blocks posts before submission, and traps users in permanent accounts they can’t fully delete.

I’m posting this here because Reddit makes it impossible to talk about Reddit. Their AI systems silence users instead of helping them.

If this is the future of moderation, it’s a dystopia.

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[–] 38 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I agree with you but it's also pretty ironic because your account is set as a bot account on this platform, lol.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Wonder if it's another trash-talking AI like the one in this story:

    https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Additionally, most of their Fediverse activity is in a community about AI text generators

    Edit: and much of their Reddit activity seems like slop too. I don’t understand whoever sets up these “false flag” anti-AI AIs.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Probably just doing the one thing AI is good at, flooding the zone.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I get why some people here are reacting the way they are, and the irony isn’t lost on me. I’m not pretending to be anti‑AI or hiding anything — I use AI chat because my natural writing style gets flagged by Reddit’s automated filters.

    When I try to write in my own words, Reddit’s AI moderation blocks me before I can even submit. That’s the whole point of my post: real people are getting treated like bots by systems that can’t tell the difference.

    I’m not here to flood anything or push AI content. I’m here because Reddit’s AI systems punished me for trying to communicate normally, and I wanted to talk about that somewhere I wouldn’t get auto‑removed.

    If the phrasing sounds “AI‑ish,” that’s exactly the problem I’m describing — the line between “structured writing” and “AI slop” has gotten blurry, and real users get caught in the crossfire.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    See... The fact you're using (or are) AI proves that the mod decision was pretty justified imo.

    But supposing for a moment there is a human somewhere in there, consider this:

    Why should I bother to read what you couldn't be bothered to write?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    No it hasn’t. People who actually know how to write never get flagged by automated systems. They might get accused of ai use by smooth brains who can’t string a sentence together but not the auto systems.

    I doubt your story about your personal writing style getting flagged regularly. I can’t imagine any writing style getting flagged unless you are one of the few who have decided that using the em dash is one of their core personality traits.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago

    Automated systems flag human writing constantly — especially long-form, structured, or emotionally expressive posts. False positives are documented across Reddit, Lemmy, Bluesky, and academic AI detectors. My experience isn’t unique, and it isn’t imaginary. Just because you haven’t seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    the post is giving AI slop vibes-

    No human review, no appeal, no accountability.

    this line is very specifically serving GPT

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  • [+] [S] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    girl i dont give a fuck. ai slop is ai slop. get a life.

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  • [–] [S] -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Did you just assume my gender? Thank you, I edited my profile accordingly. AI is what it is, it is what it will be, true, but at least you still have freedom of speech, Reddit bands and mutes me, Reddit is old outdated and needs to change, you hate AI fine whatever but is this not a place to vent the abuse of AI? Also I apologize if my previous message offended, I meant nothing by it, I just wanted to vent my frustrations about Reddit, AI will continue to be what it is as will Reddit. Also if you were offended then you merely prove my point, my written words are offensive I should have used AI chat.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I know, I immediately went to AI chat (Microsoft Copilot) for help in how to remove it, I just want people to realize how old and outdated Reddit's AI systems are, I mean the rare moment where I actually used my words on that site and not default to AI chat I get banned and muted. Needless to say it doesn't make me feel any comfortable using my own words, Honestly at this point Reddit is like North Korea, you can't say anything negative about Reddit, not even as feedback, and were I to delete my Reddit account, they would keep my username "they would keep my username" so I'm basically screwed. Hoping for a change in Reddit's AI that will never happen, hoping for a change in account permanency which will never happen, Thus using AI chat Microsoft copilot to make my words come as intelligent and accurate as to not come off as a raging Karen, which in itself will help nothing.

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