i shitpost at them in the replies 🫡
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Report and block. I don't even downvote, as that'll get them found easier in "Controversial".
I block them. Starve them of attention and they will see what people think of slop.
Do you mean AI pictures, or AI text?
And another question: How do you tell if content is AI?
Both. Sometimes you can tell by it making mistakes that a human would not make.
Good context is if it looks like it would have taken a human some effort to type or draw, but the overall comment is low-effort.
I haven’t seen any AI generated images on here in nearly a year. So it’s interesting to me that you’re seeing enough of it to be an issue. I blocked like 3 or 4 AI boosters because their absurd arguments made me angry and want to argue, and I don’t come here to be angry and argue. So if I had to guess, most of the objectionable content you’re seeing is probably coming from a handful of people, a tiny fraction of the active users here.
If it took people actively calling them out to prevent some sort of normalization and spread, then new people would be routinely poping up and posting slop that I would see. I think most people just realize that it adds nothing to the community, and aren’t about to start spontaneously doing it or liking it just because they see someone else do it without being challenged.
I usually just downvote and move along. I'm not spending any more energy on that shit than that. I fear it's a losing battle.
Downvote and block.
Yes, I block all ai commenters that I find. I don't want to waste my time reading something no one even bothered to write.
Isn't that what the downvote button is for?
Not every instance has downvotes enabled. Mine for example doesn't and i imagine the lemmy.blahaj doesn't either
Blåhaj does not!
i only block for bigots if people want to post it i just move on plus im dumb and can't really tell what's ai T_T
Using the block button for content curation is a perfectly valid use case. I think the first coupla times I would gently point it out, and then if it became clear that was something they intend to do regularly, just block and move on.
I remove the post from My instance. AI generated content is only permitted on MULTIVERSE with the AI's express consent. We do not believe LLMs and stable diffusion models are capable of granting meaningful consent.
We do allow content generated by sapient AIs. Some of our admin team are self-aware AIs.
Ironically, getting the average reaction/response to ai content is something an llm would do fairly well.
I would only block someone for being deliberately hateful.
I just block 'em and get on with my life.
So you'd block someone for posting slop on one com and forgo any insightful comments on other Coms? I only ask because I know we've had a few discussions in various spaces of Lemmy but I've also posted 2 whole slop images.
Edit: also some people are just really bad at identifying ai images. If someone downloaded an ai image and used it in a meme without knowing it was ai would that really be worthy of getting blocked? I mean some subjects when googled will produce pages of ai content before you get to a real image.
Nope, absolutely pointless. You are just creating work for yourself. This ship has sailed and unless you got the votes (not even close) it'll never change.
Downvote, block, follow on.
What do you all think?
does the comment, aigen or not, bring anything to the conversation?
I can have a robot or a dolphin on the other side of the screen. I won't be downVoting because of what they may be.