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AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

Kat Tenbarge

created: Dec. 5, 2025, noon | updated: Dec. 7, 2025, 11:38 p.m.

But those posts may trigger a Reddit moderator’s annoyance for a different reason—they are common themes within a growing genre of AI-generated, fake posts. With over 24 million members, it's one of the biggest subreddits, and it explicitly bans AI-generated content and other made-up stories. Some of it is entirely AI-generated, while other users have taken to editing their posts and comments with AI programs like Grammarly. “Reddit itself is either going to have to do something, or the snake is going to swallow its own tail,” she says. “It’s getting to the point where the AI is feeding the AI.”

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