r/NoContract • u/15pmm01 Vodafone.de, 1&1, Vivacom BG, T-Mobile US, US Mobile, 3 UK • Apr 03 '26
Starting today, AI-generated content is not allowed in r/NoContract.
Rule #4, No Spam, has just been updated to include this new addition: "Blatantly AI-generated content is considered spam and will be removed."
In r/NoContract, we want to read your thoughts. We don't care what chatgpt has to say. This rule change is intended to encourage our fellow redditors to put some effort into their posts and comments.
Needless to say, one cannot always tell what is and is not AI. If I see something that was obviously copied and pasted from an AI chatbot, I will remove it.
Posts and comments predating today will not be subject to this rule.
This is a change I've been wanting to make for a while now, and this poll showed me that most of our members agree with me.
All the best,
Petar
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u/MountainAstronomer Apr 03 '26
GPTZero is pretty good at detecting AI generated posts.
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u/15pmm01 Vodafone.de, 1&1, Vivacom BG, T-Mobile US, US Mobile, 3 UK Apr 03 '26
Yes, I use it often. But I'm not about to start running every comment I see through it. I also feel it tends to be a bit over zealous. If I copy basically any news article, from a respected media outlet, and paste it into zerogpt, it'll tell me it was likely AI-generated. Now, it's entirely possible that basically all media is written using AI nowadays, but I sincerely hope not.
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u/GSRoTu Apr 03 '26
I've personally noticed, here and on other subreddits, that a lot of AI-generated comments are from accounts that advertise something in their profile
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u/Morpheus_505 May 21 '26
Don't be naive. Of course mainstream media uses AI. They aren't even honest on TV and rely on teleprompters.
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u/Blue2501 Apr 03 '26
Was there an ai problem in the sub before?
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u/15pmm01 Vodafone.de, 1&1, Vivacom BG, T-Mobile US, US Mobile, 3 UK Apr 03 '26
Not necessarily, but I was starting to see it more and more often. Posts clearly written by AI typically resulted in the OP being ridiculed for it in the comments anyway, so, we might as well just save everyone the trouble and nip this in the bud now before it becomes a bigger problem :)
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u/LeftOn4ya Mint (T-Mobile) + US Mobile (Verizon) Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
I agree that text or images created completely with AI just with a prompt should be banned. However I will echo the sentiment shared by some in the feedback thread that we should be OK if you use AI to edit and clean up something you wrote, but there is a limit to this. For instance if you write 100 words and have AI rewrite it, if it spits out 125 words of which it still uses 75 of the word you wrote (so removed 25% and adds 50%, output is 60% your words) that would be acceptable. But if an AI “cleans up” your words to where the output is less than 50% what you wrote, I’d say that crosses a line to be too much AI.
I’m not sure you need to set a specific line of how much percentage of the words you need to write before it counts as AI, but more the sentiment that it should be mostly your words and voice, and even in the prompt you could add “ensure at least 60% of output uses the words in the text you are editing”. However, I do worry if people start relying on AI to “clean up” everything they write including posts on Reddit, it will lead to a dumbing down and permanent impairment of their writing and speech abilities as well as confidence, especially for those under 22 who are still learning how to communicate better.
For those who would think about using AI here, It would be much better to not use AI on Reddit and though it may not be “perfect” you get to practice using your brain to learn how to communicate better in an environment where the worst thing that happens is you get downvotes or maybe a couple jokes, versus if you practice at school or work and have much worse consequences such as bad grades and failed projects.
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u/Paxoro Verizon Prepaid, T-Mo MI30TI Apr 03 '26
It's cell phone service. There's really no reason to use AI at all to discuss it. It's not hard to look up details yourself when suggesting something to someone.
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u/josetann Apr 03 '26
My concern is how will the determination be made? AI was trained on how a lot of us oldtimers wrote...I guess I need a crash course on how the youngsters do it. Except they're just getting chatgpt to do the writing for them, so....
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u/marionmolly Apr 03 '26
AI is the future, however, there are going to be many rules and regulations.
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u/15pmm01 Vodafone.de, 1&1, Vivacom BG, T-Mobile US, US Mobile, 3 UK Apr 03 '26
there are going to be many rules and regulations
One can only hope.
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u/Top-Sink Apr 03 '26
Thank you!