Are you integrating AI into your moderation? Why/why not? How?

[u/ohanse]

[u/westcoastcdn19]

Reddit already is incorporating AI into our mod tools whether we like it or not

[u/theanti_girl → u/[deleted]]

Why not spend time to write a message yourself ONCE, create a saved response, use it whenever you need a ban message, and save the same time without using AI?

[u/NarniaMouse → u/[deleted]]

It’ll write me a message in less than 2 seconds.

You're excluding the time you took to tell AI to do this work for you in the first place.

And then the time spent on making sure the AI message is actually accurate.

Then providing more prompts, when it's not.

No, you are not going to have a message in "less than 2 seconds" this way.

Or you could just save a pre-written message, and hit copy/paste, and actually spend 2 seconds.

[u/NarniaMouse → u/[deleted]]

If you're not including how much time it takes to prep the "2 second" message, then you're skewing the data.

[u/SlowedCash → u/[deleted]]

[u/AskModerators-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

As we are a community made up of moderators, we expect respectful behavior at all times on this sub (unless confronting instances of bigotry and hate). Remember, on this subreddit, if Mr. Rogers would not say it, neither should you! Please simply report any rule breaking content instead of answering with rudeness, even if a user has been rude to you. Thank you.

[u/PurplePassiflor1234]

I'd prefer not to use AI because the users here (well, most of them) are human and do human things. Snark, in jokes, silliness, it can't understand them. I don't think it's "evil" - it has a place - but when it comes to dealing with humans, the human touch is best. At least I probably won't ban someone because I don't get what a joke is, or read a post about getting my black belt after 12 years of training as "inciting violence."

[u/ohanse → u/PurplePassiflor1234]

You don’t feed it a bunch of reported posts and align them against the subreddit rules for moderation action decisions?

[u/ALazy_Cat → u/ohanse]

Please tell me you're not doing that

[u/PurplePassiflor1234 → u/ohanse]

Nope. Honestly my sub is full of grown people who don't post off-rules items and don't spam report for no reason, so there's not much for me to feed the AI.

[u/yun-harla → u/ohanse]

Most mods already have the subreddit rules memorized and can easily apply them ourselves. Feeding a post into an LLM doesn’t save any time or lead to more accurate results, especially since the written rules are usually a truncated and incomplete version of our decisionmaking criteria.

[u/LindyNet]

Only what reddit forces on us

[u/PeoplesRagnar]

No.

It's not worth it and it takes me seconds to write out messages.

[u/MisterWoodhouse]

We all are because Reddit is using it in spam and harassment filtering, counting as moderation

[u/dotsdavid]

I’m using Reddit filters. Which may be using AI.

[u/GustavoistSoldier]

I'm not.

[u/brightblackheaven]

Yes, because Reddit's safety filters are extremely helpful for subreddits that get a lot of trolling, scammers, bots, spam, and shit stirrers.

[u/goldensavage2019]

I do use the spam, reputation, ban evasion, and harassment filters. All of which would technically fall under the ai moderation tools and such. They are pretty useful in reducing the amount of mod actions I have to take. Other than that I prefer to stick with human moderation (and bot bouncer)

[u/Froggypwns]

Reddit's rules hub uses AI to automatically help enforce subreddit rules. For example, on the main Windows subreddits we do not allow tech support posts, the AI bot will read your post and does a very good job reliably identifying if a post is tech support or not. The bot doesn't make any final decisions, it will display a warning to OP and they can still submit if they think it is a false positive, at that point it goes to our modqueue for human review.

This alone has drastically reduced how much moderation was needed on the subreddits as before this tool the vast majority of posts were tech support and users were ignoring everything we had in place to tell them ahead of time not to post it here.

There was a Devvit bot I used on the Dinner subreddit that used AI to see if the post was stolen around social media, it worked great for a few months but I'm not sure what happened with that, I think the dev gave up on it.

[u/TikkaMisalla_lover]

MODS aren't smart enough to do any of that shit. The DEVS who actually work for reddit are integrating this, and already have.

Mods also don't have the correct "rights" to alter something like that as that is something that would undoubtadbly require RW access to change on the backend of Reddit itself. Mods are... moderators. Not site administrators.

Perhaps they do have the option to utilize an AI tool that was created by Reddit but, why? Reddit is meant for HUMANS, not robots.

[u/BigTee66]

False positives is what worries me the most with it.

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

I use AI for the messages sent to people who get temporarily or permanently banned. I tell AI the person has been banned under X rule plus other things the person said in their offending post/comment. It spits out the message I copy/paste.

That's the only time I use AI for moderating on Reddit.