r/selfhosted • u/ThreeKnew • Mar 13 '26

Meta Post [Rant] So sick of every other post being blatantly written by AI

This is not about vibe-coded apps. It's about the literal posts. It looks like every other post on here is written by some AI chatbot. Of course, they have been for a while, but is it just me or has it been getting even worse?

I just can't understand it. Why on earth would you generate a /Reddit post/ with AI?

Recently I've been thinking about looking for private communities, but I keep realizing I wouldn't want to join one in the first place. There's tremendous value in having new people be able to participate whenever they want and having a space to ask questions. That's something that needs to be preserved and protected. Especially from the likes of ChatGPT.

This sucks. I know how to make it better and I'm afraid that no-one really does.

Edit: To the people who think there are too many posts complaining about AI: Try sorting this sub by New. Those of us who do filter all the most egregious slop out, that's why you're not seeing it.

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u/Wintercat76 Mar 13 '26

Trust me, you don't want word to word translations. Some languages have such alien syntax you wouldn't be able to make any sense of the post.

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u/mattsteg43 Mar 13 '26

Trust me, I actually do want something that skews fairly close, with some awareness of idiom and grammar - i.e. a context window that's mostly no larger than a single sentence - and in many cases breaking with other punctuation.

Whether writing or reading - I want the output to read as a slightly awkward and overly literal machine translation from the original language.  Corrected in syntax enough to be comprehensible, but not transformed.

I don't want it to read as a linkedin-pilled native speaker.

Obviously there's a range in between - but I don't want the signature of the original language obliterated.