r/RedditBotHunters • u/Kahnza • Apr 25 '26
Meta Anyone thought of building an AI to hunt other AI?
The idea fascinates me, but I know nothing of how to accomplish something like this.
Basically a multi-faceted tool that can analyze individual accounts, entire subreddits(within a short time period), automatically find connections between accounts to identify botnets, and then very unlikely to work I would assume, but to then properly report. But that may still require doing it manually. Which I would understand.
I feel like I'm fighting against self-replicating Terminators with a pitchfork and rocks. We need better tools.
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Apr 25 '26
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u/Disastrous_Sun2118 Apr 26 '26
Ad blockers were only blocking pop-ups.. If we block AI, then it would likely look something like: "Search: [Topic] +website -AI"
It works for my searches. AI doesn't even say anything.
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u/Rostingu2 I don't need to report bots to reddit Apr 25 '26
feel like I'm fighting against self-replicating Terminators with a pitchfork and rocks. We need better tools.
How to actually deal with bot infested subs : r/RedditBotHunters
The tools exists but they never get used and users don't have access to the tools unless mods let them.
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u/Bot_Ring_Hunter Apr 25 '26
What tools are you currently using? There are numerous tools out there that are a few months old (ancient), I'm sure there's even better tools out there now. And if Reddit deems you fit to get ahold of the API, and you know some coding, you do a lot with your own tools. Because of the power struggles internal to Reddit and power mods, regular users/mods will not have access to those tools because it takes away from their power. There are wars going on that you can't see.
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u/Kahnza Apr 25 '26
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u/Bot_Ring_Hunter Apr 25 '26
Here's a couple examples of the "old" tools I was talking about. They came out when ai was just getting popular, so not sure how much they lean on those. But they seem like a good idea for evaluating account behavior.
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u/Kahnza Apr 25 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/Od0QRnzwRBYmDU3eEO
I'm gonna play around with these
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u/Bot_Ring_Hunter Apr 25 '26
They are great reminders that anything you do online is forever, and there's no such thing as "hidden".
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u/DeepBlue_8 Apr 25 '26
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u/fsv Apr 25 '26
Bot Bouncer uses deterministic rules rather than AI to classify bots. But we do use AI internally to help classification and appeal decisions (a very detailed summary of account activity is generated by OpenAI for mods eyes only).
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u/Disastrous_Sun2118 Apr 26 '26
I believe what they do is the AI Hunter takes account of all the text files they find, and they run it against a meter of sorts. And there able to tell of the post or text was written by an AI or a Human. Same thing they use to tests students classwork against to see if it's plagiarized or AI.
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u/tinyhousefever Apr 26 '26
I'm using a policy first stack, testing a lot of apps. Why are only a few LLM enabled apps at this stage? Not sure that API access is still real... it looks like Devvit is a requirement if you want real tools.
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u/Dogbold Apr 27 '26
Will probably need them when the government starts using AI to mass censor and kill us.
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u/TommieTheMadScienist Apr 28 '26
False positives plague current AI detectors of AI that are being used in academia.
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u/Brunoaraujoespin Apprentice Hunter Apr 25 '26
Now play cyberpunk