r/confessions • u/Unlikely-Database-27 • Apr 17 '26

No ai posts allowed

This sub has been flooded with ai in the past. But not anymore. If you make a post with ai, where it is very obviously ai written, (we can tell) it will be removed, and you banned. Have fun, and lets hear some confessions. Human ones.

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u/Odd_Letterhead_5064 Apr 17 '26

Good call, was getting tired to see those weird perfect grammar posts that read like customer service responses.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Yep. Somethings gotta be done.

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u/Bavarkhy Apr 17 '26

As a reader of this sub for the last 6ish months, and probably speaking to a lot of viewers, thank you for doing this. We really appreciate it.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Trust me, I'm a reader too. I've been around for like 5 years. I'm really grateful the chance to become a mod came up, because something has to be done about this place. Its just not what it once was.

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u/The_FurMidables Apr 17 '26

really appreciate this, all that AI BS is tiring. we need genuine human confessions

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u/Jealous-Cash-3492 Jul 17 '26

Can get more fashions on Reddit then a Catholic priest gets

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u/VictoryMother9890 Apr 20 '26

I’m just saying if you’re a iota

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Jun 03 '26

I don't look through every comment. Mostly I just remove the super obvious stuff or those that have been reported. I don't know whats going on with the other mods, though. Botting is a very serious comment across reddit as a whole though sadly. Just look at ask reddit.

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u/mpdscb Apr 17 '26

In all fairness, some of us do write in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. I even do this when I text. I do avoid semicolons and em dashes, though, as I'm not fully comfortable with them.

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u/Green-eyedMama Apr 17 '26

I embrace semicolons and em dashes, but I tend to get a bit verbose and need the extra punctuation to prevent full run-on sentences.

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u/Jealous-Cash-3492 Jul 17 '26

Come on all those darts and; colonoscopies they are not important. Just like ZIP Codes. they don’t matter

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 May 24 '26

Yes this is frustrating to me that people now assume any high effort post with bold subheads and an occasional dash is definitely AI.

It actually punishes people who type fast or can use voice to text to produce a lot of content quickly. Or people that just want to spend time editing and writing well.

I just wish people would take the 30 seconds of copying and pasting and checking to see if it's AI before they rush to the conclusion because something is formatted well or has a couple dashes in it.

It's I have to admit I have even intentionally left typos in now just to avoid allegations

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 May 24 '26

I think the dash is actually an awesome piece of punctuation that has been completely ruined by AI. It has real utility I think in writing. Of course you can always use a comma or a period and then start a new sentence.

But I think the dash was a useful way to add extra emphasis. And it totally I have noticed that AI tends to use it for that kind of emphasis rather than -- like some people will use it -- in pairs as a kind of aside.

Now I often replace dashes like that with parentheses or something but I just sucks that AI has a ruined a good piece of punctuation.

Any punctuation can be overused but amazing writers used m-dashes over the years from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut.

The semicolon is a little more controversial. It's utility is a little more questionable. It can be used correctly and incorrectly but it is never necessary, outside of maybe when you're doing lists.

(Ie, My favorite foods are the following: 1) Pizza; 2) hamburgers ;) etc...'

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u/keylyme_phx Aug 15 '26

Bro fucking AI!!!

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u/Biennial2 Apr 17 '26

Ok, I'll try to use bad gramer and speling more.

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u/Jealous-Cash-3492 Jul 17 '26

More typos!….. more pontificate, nonsensical expression. Keep them coming cause guys like us. We got more stories than Walt Disney.

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u/keylyme_phx Aug 15 '26

Ai 💀💀💀💀

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Ya I mean, It's not that posts have to be "bad" to feel human. I'm sure many of us have perfectly eloquent posts in our history. 

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint. 

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u/NoDoctor4460 Apr 17 '26

Robotic but very pleased with itself, this combination chafes terribly

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Apr 17 '26

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint.

Unfortunately, that's only for the AI slop that you spot. You can prompt AI with your own writing and give it a whole repository of things not to do that are traditional "tells."

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u/StillMarie76 Apr 17 '26

I'm terrified to use an em dash. Ai ruined my dash, damnit!

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Agreed. However thats not even the biggest give away, although it is one. Worst ones is when you see something like "Not x. Not y. But z." Surely you know what I mean. Thats everywhere. Its gotta be stopped jfc.

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u/BullCowBear Apr 17 '26

I really hate that shit: it’s not x, it’s y! Or but here is what no one talks about! Or but here’s the facts!

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Yeah, the short sentences, or the overly flowerly descriptions, for example. Then I realized. The night went quiet. The kind of quiet that settles in your chest like cement. Not empty. Not emotion filled. Just empty heaviness. Get out of here with that shit, robots.

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u/art_dragon Apr 17 '26

One word: "honest"

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u/Few-Counter7067 Apr 19 '26

Paragraph. Paragraph. Stinger sentence.

As a writer that’s the most obvious to me.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

Yep. Its lazy, plus theres very little, if any, change in it from post to post, application to application. Its gotten very old and I think the majority of the world is realizing that.

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u/am_Nein Apr 19 '26

That's why online I do this- wrong, but very- and I mean very- human.

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u/Megm555 Apr 17 '26

As an English major, I so agree. I've been avoiding this sub for this exact reason. Thank you so very much.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Hopefully you'll come back. I too used to enjoy it as a user before ai came along. I'm glad I'm now a mod, so I can finally do something about it. So somebody can, and I'm certainly willing to. Nothing was being done before.

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u/Megm555 Apr 17 '26

Sounds great! Thank you so much!

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u/this-guy- Apr 17 '26

Me , time travelling back to tell my English Teacher

"Nah mate. You see good grammar and spelling are actually going to work againdt me in future. Whats valuable in 2026 is obvious Hunan errors and stuff. Otherwise people think you are an AI. "

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

It is unfortunate, yes. And its happening across lots of fields. Music, for example too.

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u/Ok_Garden571 Apr 17 '26

Sometimes I just wish I could just walk outside in the morning before daylight in nothing. Just oil myself up good and walk outside and take out the garbage naked.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

See, this one warrants its own post. This is the kind of confession needed.

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u/Ok-Market8788 Jun 04 '26

y por que o que o para que

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u/Automatic_Employee40 Aug 30 '26

I love being naked! Why are people so weird about it?!!;

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u/enigma_anomaly Apr 17 '26

Quick question, whilst I'm very much human (or so I'm told), I've had a few people accuse me of being a robot, so what would happen if I did a post and you thought my autistic ass was AI?

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Ai has a very specific pattern. Its easy enough to spot, or not. And obviously, karma is an indicator too, most ai accounts are new and therefore lacking.

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u/enigma_anomaly Apr 18 '26

Fair. Thanks. Have a great day

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u/NoPantsAreSafe Apr 17 '26

This is a real slippery slope. I've never used AI and had my posts removed from other subreddits because of a false flag. More often than not, they're false accusations with no way to defend yourself other than, "It sounds like AI so we're removing it." It can punish the people who choose to type properly.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Ai can't tell, the auto mods. But humans can, especially when slop is everywhere.

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u/PinkFloydBoxSet Apr 17 '26

Any chance we can get rid of the penthouse forum posts while you are at it?

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

Sure. Sweet username btw.

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u/Automatic_Employee40 Aug 30 '26

Is that still a thing?

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u/BethSwnowBall Apr 18 '26

Good - That is a very good thing - Lets all be happy about this.

Do you find this response acceptable? I could make it more bubbly and natural if you'd like?

/S

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

You're absolutely right, human responses are much nicer on reddit, and you should definitely be using them over ai sounding ones. Lets break that down in a straightforward way, specifically as it relates to posting on subreddits.

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u/BethSwnowBall Apr 18 '26

Lol i was joking. I was trying to make it sound like A.I had written my comment.

I agree. i fkin hate A.I and when ever you call ppl out on it they say "I did use A.I but it's just to help structure the post as I am Dyslexic/autistic/ADHD etc. Which i could maybe understand but ALL of their posts/comments sound A.I.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

I was joking too.

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u/Automatic_Employee40 Aug 30 '26

I could make you less happy and not let you touch me..... My husband is super secure and got really turned on.

Everyone has breasts... I don't really understand the fascination. It made Darnell happy to touch me. 😎

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u/GuidanceImpressive14 Aug 22 '26

I have a least favorite child.

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u/Low-Worldliness4767 Aug 22 '26

Love taking blast of crack cocain and deepthroating atleast a 12inch or longer black man's hard erect cock tasting his precum till he explodes his warm sweet cum juices down my throat after gargling and swishing his cum juices around inside my mouth

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Aug 22 '26

Now this is poetry.

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u/Low-Worldliness4767 Sep 17 '26

Love swallowing warm juicy black man's cock and draining every drop of his cum juices down my throat as a huge black long hard cock is hitting the insides of my stomach and feeling it throbbing and pulsating as he's explodes his warm cum deep in my ass

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u/ericporing Apr 17 '26

How do you even moderate ai bots? Just curious.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Well if they aren't reported, its still easy enough to tell. I've been around long enough.

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u/H1landr Apr 19 '26

You're absolutely right.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 19 '26

Lets break that down....

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u/MostAdvance7628 Apr 19 '26

I wish my husband would dress up like a burglar and give me rough sex all night

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 19 '26

I first read that as 'give you rough sex all night' and was like but I'm in a relationship with a woman.... And although I'm bisexual in nature I have no desire to be a bottom so. Nah dog.

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u/Vajillara Apr 21 '26

Why aren't you guys allowing posts in here anymore??? this was a popular place

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Edit: turns out I've figured it out. Members should be able to post now, or soon. Leaving the original comment purely for archival purposes, shall we say. I'm a new mod. I have no idea, but my changing the settings doesn't seem to be working. I keep trying to allow posts. I miss this place. I'll keep trying. If any other mods see this, please do explain.

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u/Elegant_Promise_9340 May 10 '26

I will be travelling to Aizawl next week with my husband on our anniversary and i wanna a girl to lick me infront of him and we end up doing threesome i lied about my sexuality to him i am a bisexual

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 May 10 '26

Is he aware of such information?

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u/Elegant_Promise_9340 May 10 '26

He is not but obviously he will be happy if i bring another female

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 May 10 '26

Is this in assumption, or a confirmed fact? Men think girl on girl action is hot. My husband is a man, therefore he thinks girl on girl is hot. The argument is flawed on the grounds that it: Lol. If I ever decide to write lsat questions rather than simply study them, this would honestly be one I'd put.

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u/Top-Extension-3844 May 12 '26

I am a 48 yr old f, and dating 29 yr old m, he is a doctor. I am a house keeper. I should confess. I look really good for my age. I just want to say been dating him for over 3 mts. I have known him for over a year. He tried to date be before, I refuse due to age gap. Well I just want to say, the sex is the best I have ever had in my life! An I know he is feeling the same way! Dam I am in love with this man! I just had to say that! Idk how long this will last but I am not going to take what we have for granted, not for a second!

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u/Ok-Market8788 Jun 04 '26

no te enamores amiga... yo tengo 47 y tanmbien me veo bien y tambien ando con mas jovenes.. esos solo tienen morbos con nosotras

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u/gotbeefpudding Jun 02 '26

now remove all the obvious fetish posting ones too

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u/Character-Balance574 Jun 14 '26

Hi my name is Steve and no I am not ai, I'm a real person anyway I think I want to be eaten alive and all up 😍 by a real Cannibal, no I don't know why, and yes it's sexual fantasy and God 🙏 Christ Jesus 🙏 help me

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u/Character-Balance574 Jun 16 '26

I didn't say it was you personally, I'm just letting whomever is in charge that I'm not ai, I'm a real person

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Jun 16 '26

Fair enough lol.

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u/Ok_Bear_1980 Apr 17 '26

It's sad how you have to actually make a post like this for people that have nothing else going on in their lives.

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u/BinaryBeany Apr 17 '26

I’m all for it.

There’s also gonna be alot of stray bullet bans but w/e

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u/timmyx2times Apr 17 '26

About time.

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u/Datan0de Apr 17 '26

Uh oh. As someone with both good grammar and a tendency to use structure similar to ChatGPT, I might be in trouble.

In the other hand, I tend to wear my life on my sleeve, so I don't have much to confess...

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u/MKebi Apr 17 '26

You're probably alright ("in" the other hand)

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u/Aramira137 Apr 17 '26

Same, my autistic writing style would likely get me in trouble with AI detection software, but also I live a pretty mundane (but happy) life.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Apr 17 '26

Finally my bad spelling and tendency to forget a word when I type is paying off.

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u/Front_Situation_9009 Apr 18 '26

What a time to be alive.