How We’re Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era

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This post details significant upgrades to Reddit's AI-powered automated defense systems. New capabilities include using LLMs to detect subtle, coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype, and signals at account creation to stop suspicious actors early. The post quantifies improvements such as blocking 23 million spam views daily, catching 25K spammy posts/comments daily, reducing user spam exposure by ~20%, and revoking nearly 2 million inauthentic votes daily. For harmful content, enforcement time is now under five seconds, with a >200% increase in enforcement actions and a >40% reduction in exposure and false positives.