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Changed my stance on AI moderation after 5 days of fighting a bot invasion
I used to think AI moderation tools were overhyped and that human mods could handle everything. Then my small subreddit got hit with a coordinated spam attack last month. Over 400 bot accounts posted scam links in under 48 hours. I spent 5 days manually banning accounts and removing posts, and it still wasn't under control. The pattern kept shifting, new accounts, same links, slightly different wording. A friend showed me how an AI filter could catch the common phrasing patterns in real time. I set one up on a trial basis and it flagged 90% of the spam within an hour. I was wrong about the tech being useless. It's not perfect, but it bought me enough time to actually look at the edge cases myself. Has anyone else had a moment where an AI tool outperformed your manual process by a huge margin, or does the over-reliance worry you more than the spam?
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bennett.harper28d ago
Is anyone else noticing that the bots are learning from the AI filters too? The first wave you caught might be the easy ones, but the folks running these scams are watching how the filter works and changing their wording around it. That means you're not just fighting spam anymore, you're in an arms race where the AI has to keep updating just to stay even. The manual work doesn't really go away, it just shifts from banning accounts to tweaking the filter rules. And that's the part nobody talks about, the maintenance grind that comes after the setup.
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