Reddit’s ‘Interesting as Fuck’ Community Rules That AI

Reddit’s community for posting “anything truly interesting as fuck” has removed an AI-generated video for violating the community’s first rule: “Posts MUST be INTERESTING AS FUCK!” 

This is yet another example of how AI-generated content is flooding into online spaces that were previously exclusively for sharing content made by humans, and how in some cases self-organizing moderators are better at filtering out AI-generated content than many social media and other platforms owned by big tech companies.

The post in question, titled “Mother’s love is universal..” was shared last Friday on r/interestingasfuck and gained thousands of upvotes before being removed. The subreddit has grown to 13 million members since it was founded in 2008, making it one of the largest and oldest subreddits. The post showed a video of what appeared to be a green parrot spreading its wings over some chicks in a nest, protecting them from the rain. The video, which might be convincing at a glance, gained 12,000 upvotes and more than 300 comments, but many of the latter immediately called it out as being AI-generated. As some commenters pointed out, slight visual glitches and the unrealistic way lights and shadow fall in the image are clear tells that it’s AI-generated, signs experts have previously also told 404 Media they use to identify AI-generated images. 

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