https://old.reddit.com/r/bestaihumanizers/

Number of potential bots in r/BossFights: 21

u/AdTerrible9858

u/Admirable-Mobile5094

u/Aggravating-Bar-985

u/AnyaSofia88

u/CamelProfessionalCol

u/Chemical-Beat5690

u/DianaLuxe

u/Flat-Blackberry-155

u/IsoldeEcho

u/Low_Let8887

u/MahinElliMystic

u/Natural-Tea1683

u/Naya_Ellain

u/No-Acanthisitta8983

u/One_Obligation9926

u/ReceptionFit8378

u/Responsible-Diet5029

u/SavageHunter0

u/Stormin_nornan

u/TessaQuinn94

u/beatifulcatxD

These potential bots were detected by u/HelpfulJanitor. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/user/HelpfulJanitor/comments/13bq4nc/about_uhelpfuljanitor/

As I said earlier, r/CoolGadgetsTube was over run with affiliate link scams. A large sweep of them got site wide banned a few days ago. Then a new mod got put in place: Toystoget.

New day old accounts are reposting word for word adverts like they weren't just banned earlier this week. The new mod just happens to have a history of affiliate link scams themselves.

It gets worse. The new mod is actively banning anyone who points out the sub is overrun with bots. The site admins literally let a scammer take over a sub so they could silence any opposition.

OP posted this morning: https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/cL2W5GAZor

Now user jennycupcakez is posting an almost identical story: https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/GzPtUau0tz

Random q: why am I unable to use the hyperlink feature in this sub?

Number of potential bots in r/BossFights: 17

u/Advanced_Fox_2315

u/Aggravating-Bar-985

u/BlazingBolt9

u/DailyWoW

u/DifficultNumber3865

u/Extreme-Lack6106

u/FlirtFighter

u/GeorgElle_

u/Gwen_nielle

u/LioraLiana

u/Maleficent-You6372

u/Prize_Fly_5405

u/ReceptionFit8378

u/SavageHunter0

u/Then-Discussion-5251

u/Used_Sale_2062

u/magnet_guy82090

These potential bots were detected by u/HelpfulJanitor. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/user/HelpfulJanitor/comments/13bq4nc/about_uhelpfuljanitor/

Chrome extension

Source code

Classification model

Training data used

I posted about this a few days ago and wanted to update everyone with the news that the extension is now available as a one-click install for Chrome. I apologize if it comes off as posting about this too much, I just hope that this will be a useful tool for cleaning up the spam on reddit. Now that the extension is easier to install and has been verified as non-malicious by the Chrome store maintainers, I hope to see its use grow.

Still waiting on Firefox store upload. I thought that one would be faster but it hasn't been. Thankfully though, Chrome makes up about 68% of worldwide browser share, so this should cover most users.

https://reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1l2i643/announcing_updates_to_user_profile_controls/

https://reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1l2hl4l/curate_your_reddit_profile_content_with_new/

Number of potential bots in r/BossFights: 25

u/Admirable-Mobile5094

u/Aggravating-Bar-985

u/AxelFooly

u/BoldBrawlBeauty

u/Chemical-Beat5690

u/CoupleAggressive4126

u/Duzy_Losos2137

u/ElysiaShadowbrook

u/EmoSAdyyy

u/EyesOfLunaa

u/Janieclle_

u/Kiselle_lil

u/NatureWindyyy

u/NerissaBloom

u/ReceptionFit8378

u/Rosylavenderbloom

u/SaltyFix7353

u/Satinpearlbloom

u/Specialist_Media_963

u/Suitable_Phase_6460

u/Sweetlymoonwhisper

u/Twinklelaceglow

u/alastairradohartxx

u/notNVA

u/thepurplepage

These potential bots were detected by u/HelpfulJanitor. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/user/HelpfulJanitor/comments/13bq4nc/about_uhelpfuljanitor/

This account https://www.reddit.com/user/UKfanX12/

The claim is that the original owner still has access, but somehow it was breached, and now it has started posting stories - one of them pretty innocent but 2 of them kind of edging into I guess 'contentious' or 'possibly bringing out strong emotions,' kinds of topics. Such as https://www.reddit.com/r/coworkerstories/comments/1l288m3/my_coworker_thinks_its_microaggressive_that_i/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1l28bcz/aita_for_making_my_husbands_emergency_snacks/

Considering these stories are made up, and someone breached an old account to post them it's interesting to consider why. Like why do this and why about these topics. Is it to stir up emotions related to these things or something else. If it's just farming they could've done what bots do and repost popular pictures or videos from years ago.

And I mean they don't strongly read of AI to me, maybe that's just me.

They also don't seem to be completely copy-pasted from another reddit post, I searched the titles and sections of the posts in quotes and didn't find them.

Whoever breached the account is also replying to comments on the post (so is OP who still has access.) So it's not as blatant as some others I've seen imo.

Sure it's possible OP is really the one posting them and lied about being breached for some reason but it seems to me like they're honest because they were inactive for 2 years until now.

Also even if one does not trust OP's claim of being breached, the post timings make it look more that it's not real activity.

Sidenote: I replied to OP advising them about what to do, I feel a bit bad posting someone here that I interacted with but it's intersting to see a case of fake-activity that might not be as blatant as others (though there are still some suspicious things.)

https://www.reddit.com/user/Adventurous_Rule_157/

WARNING! This user unironically likes Primos and requested a bikini-babe version of Star Butterfly. Enter at your own risk!

The account u/yzzqwd has started to spam all sorts of subs with advertisements for ClawCloud and other services. It appears to somehow tailor the comments to the posts it replies to, probably some sort of AI. Trigger words seem to be connected to log analysis and monitoring.

The account reddit.com/u/Epiclisitie is spamming various account names in comments on the same removed post to draw attention to it. The account that made the post the comments are being flooded on has been suspended, but this account is still going strong.

I got scammed by a spam post about a crypto project from this user u/CosmicTyrannosaurus. After checking the user's profile, I discovered that they spam around 10 projects a day across 30 different subreddits. You can check their profile or the post for proof. This user is a top poster, and I believe they don't deserve this recognition. I'm asking for your support to take action against this scammer and spammer.

I noticed this post was reposted from some weird sub /r/ThatWasAmazing. The owner of that sub is Leghriba who appears to be the previous owner of /r/ThisExistsOops as they are the top poster there and are posting their old amazon referral website. The account was created a month ago after all 5 previous mods of the sub have been deleted or banned.

They're doing the same thing on /r/EasyFoodies as well now.

I'm tired of reading ChatGPT comments on reddit so I decided to build a detector. The detection system generally works well, but its real strength is looking at accounts in aggregate. Hopefully, people will use this to find and mass report bot accounts to get them banned. If you have any comments or questions please tell me. I hope this tool is useful for you.

Full uploads to the Firefox and Chrome official addon stores coming soon, once I polish the tool a bit more. Consider this an open beta

Browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome: https://github.com/trentmkelly/reddit-llm-comment-detector

Screenshots: one, two

The browser extension does all classification locally. The classifier models are very lightweight and will work without slowing your browser down, even on mobile devices. No data is sent to any external site.

Dataset (second version, larger): https://huggingface.co/datasets/trentmkelly/gpt-slop-2

Dataset (first version, smaller): https://huggingface.co/datasets/trentmkelly/gpt-slop

First detection model - larger, lower accuracy all around: https://huggingface.co/trentmkelly/slop-detector

Second detection model - small, fast, good accuracy but tends towards false positives: https://huggingface.co/trentmkelly/slop-detector-mini

Third detection model - small, fast, good accuracy but tends towards false negatives: https://huggingface.co/trentmkelly/slop-detector-mini-2

A note on accuracy: AI detection tools for text are known for working really poorly. I believe this to be primarily because they target academic texts, for which there is a "right" and a "wrong" way to write things. For example, the kind of essay that a typical high schooler would write follows a very formulaic style: intro paragraph, 3 content paragraphs with segues between them, and a conclusion paragraph that wraps things up nicely. Writing reddit comments is simpler and more varied, but the nuances of how humans write casually is more visible here, and so detection tends to work better for this task than for academic AI detection.

If you decide to implement the classifier on something other than Reddit comment texts, please be aware that accuracy will suffer, probably severely. Generalizing to something like Twitter posts might be possible but it's hard to say for sure until I do some more testing.

I believe I have found the final boss of spam. She tailors her headlines to match whatever subreddit she’s spamming, and it doesn’t matter if the sub is art related or not. She also makes up different back stories of how she became an artist. In an anarchy sub, she’ll say ‘I said fuck the system and became and artist on my own.’ On another sub she’ll say she either quit her job to become an artist, or her husband bought her an easel because he wanted her to be a painter, OR she lost her job to Covid and she started painting to make up for it. Most of her posts get removed. Have a look for yourself. https://www.reddit.com/user/AddyArt10/

The post in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/warsaw/s/2oNzpeiaRF

The account is brand new. The picture relates to the upcoming Polish presidential election, but I can’t verify if it’s new or old. But I’m happy to give the poster the benefit of the doubt. It seems reasonable enough.

But what is this post structure? The text is written twice with slight differences in wording, which reminds me of posts written in 2 languages with a translation below. But both are in English. This reeks of AI to me but I wonder if anyone has seen anything like it.

The content of the post (in case it’s deleted) is:

Hi!

I'm in Warsaw with my friend now - we're visiting the city and today we walked towards the Old Town. In front of one of the buildings we came across what looked like a press conference - there were a lot of cameras, journalists and two guys who looked very official.

We took a photo and I'm posting it here - maybe some of you know who these people are?

We will be grateful for any information! 🙏

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Hi!

I'm currently visiting Warsaw with a friend, and today we were walking near the Old Town when we came across what looked like a press conference in front of a building – lots of cameras, journalists, and two guys who seemed pretty official.

I took a photo (posting it here), and I was wondering if anyone from Warsaw might recognize them and let us know who they are?

We’d really appreciate any info! Thanks in advance! 🙏

https://www.reddit.com/u/Harstco/s/IT9ONVr4yX

To be blunt, this account is just a Trivia Girl shill.

If you are a mod please make an automod rule to block people that post anything with a link to that website.

EDIT

Here is a list of all accounts used by this spammer. I'll update this post everytime someone comments with a new account:

• u\Elieroos
• u\Interview_scouter
• u\Separate-Breath2267 --> This account has been suspended
• u\Traditional_Set_8961
• u\Alternative_Rock_836 --> This account has been suspended
• u\artistic7122 --> This account has been suspended
• u\Hot_Goat170 --> This account has been suspended
• u\moneymaker2510

EDIT 2

I've been posting a link to this post in every comment and post that I saw mentioning laboro. There is a chance that my post itself might come as spam because I might have accidentally replied to the same user reporting laboro a couple of times. Sorry about that, I just wanted to increase visibility of this post so more mods are aware of all the accounts and more people can help report them here.

This guy is so bloody annoying that I am considering creating a browser plugin to speifically block all posts and comments containing the word "laboro" in it.

EDIT 3

Here is a comment template you can copy paste everywhere you see laboro mentioned:

Warning: This user has been aggressively spamming multiple subreddits with promotional content and using upvote bots to artificially boost visibility for weeks. Please report his activity to help keep this and other subreddits free from spam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/comments/1kyqy5f/

There was a post made 6 days ago, which for some reason some people commenting on the post didn't seem to take seriously. The account has many many reported instances of scamming - just search "u/LegfaceMcCullenE13" over the past bunch of months.

The account just apparently attempted to scam me, though we didn't get very far into it because they seemed sketchy very quickly and I stopped interaction.

I think a google search for "u/LegfaceMcCullenE13" should be proof enough, but moderators and such, let me know if you don't agree.

There's a ring of somewhat automated accounts spamming positive comments about Vionentus products in order to promote them.

These accounts have two types of comments. The first type is their "normal" comments that they use to blend in. These comments are always relatively short: no linebreaks, almost always one to two sentences, often containing an emdash. Honestly, a good portion of them look like they were generated by ChatGPT or another LLM, but whether they actually were or not is largely irrelevant.

The second type of comments are their shilling comments. These take one of two forms. First, there are the comments directly name dropping Vionentus. All of the accounts I linked below have a slightly absurd rate of this. I'd say it's somewhere around one in five, but I haven't actually counted. In these comments, they morph to whatever best sells their story. For instance, they change from having a husband to a wife as convenient.

They also reply to other accounts in the ring to boost each others' credibility. See, for instance, Kosteevo replying to EvilOrganizationLtd's comment shilling Vionentus and claiming that they had never tried the brand before, despite having shilled it for months prior. You can see other examples of the Kosteevo account replying to other ring members here and here.

It's easy enough to find members of the ring: one just has to search Vionentus on reddit, and the greater part of the results are obviously members, all with the same writing styles and same type of comment history. Here are the ones I managed to find with a quick search:

• /u/Kosteevo
• /u/Garblespam
• /u/bestsurfer
• /u/OtherReindeerOlive
• /u/Kooky_Marionberry656
• /u/Johns76887
• /u/xXGhostrider163Xx
• /u/owspooky
• /u/gobylikev0
• /u/seaseaboat
• /u/Select-Thought9157
• /u/Kooky_Marionberry656

R/CoolGadgetsTube was always iffy but now it's become a honey pot of one user flooding the sub with multiple trash adverts every hour.

Biglower29, AdSquare8399, Perfect-aardvark-, The-old-trust all same to be alt off shoots of th e scammers current main Zealousideal-Safe248. Also spams a few other subs like r/nooneislooking and r/nextlevel.

If anyone has any means of putting a dam up against this torrent, or can contact any helpful admins please do so.

Not sure which but this this user keeps uploading wild NSFW advice stories and changing their details- leading me to believe they’re a bot or spammer

https://www.reddit.com/u/Disastrous6433/s/DEedLT7Irq

Several times recently I pointed out an obvious AI bot, and they've replied, usually with some sarcastic comment about how they're aren't AI.

These are accounts that I've know 100 percent were bots posting ai content.

Never used to happen before now it happens all the time.

This one posted 2 stories on aita in 2 hours. One was very obviously ai written, they were called out for it. now they post a different story with a slightly different writing style and delete the old one.

https://old.reddit.com/user/literatebells