r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dougley cat flair.txt | sudo sh • 23h ago

Mod post modUpdateApril2025

Howdy!

Spring is almost upon us! We've been enjoying the warmer weather so far. We'd like to share a quick update as well, so stick around for a bit.

AI generated posts

Memes that are AI generated, such as this, and this, are considered low quality. Additionally, we've seen that AI regurgitates jokes that have already been made, especially when generating specific post types where the resemblances are so blatant that people were able to pinpoint the exact source post. Due to this, AI generated posts will be removed on sight, and repeat offenders will be banned.

To make it clear that we are no longer allowing AI generated images, we're adding this restriction to the rules. Please welcome Rule 9: No AI generated posts allowed.

We're open to feedback on this! Please leave your thoughts in the comments, we'd love to know what you think.

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u/kleinerChemiker 20h ago

It's good that you give examples, but as they are allready removed, they won't help much. But thanks for banning AI posts.

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u/Dougley cat flair.txt | sudo sh 5h ago

Their respective OPs deleted them shortly after I listed them as examples, must've felt bad.

The post that got us talking about this internally which also has some good examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/J7iFpCOIqF

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u/Knighthawk_2511 3h ago

The fact that it got 11k upvotes (probably the highest I have ever seen on this sub) speaks volumes

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u/inetphantom 9h ago

But hey, they can see them!

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u/ColoRadBro69 23h ago

What about the billion low effort vibe posts a day?  This sub used to be humorous and funny.  Can we do something about that and get back to the jokes please? 

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u/Tata-OwO 23h ago

we went from

javascript bad -> curve bell -> many other repeated jokes -> back to javascript bad -> and repeat

to now

javascript bad -> curve bell -> many other repeated jokes -> vibe coding bad -> back to javascript bad -> and repeat

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u/ColoRadBro69 22h ago

It's like 99% low effort memes about vibe coding lately.  This sub is basically turning into r/OneJoke.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 18h ago

You must be new here.

Its always been that way. Every 5-6 months we get a nrw wave of IsEven memes

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u/Cootshk 12h ago

the irony of onejoke is they have more than one joke

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u/Littux 20h ago

Python slow

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u/Knighthawk_2511 3h ago

Missing semicolon

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u/Littux 2h ago

Missing space or tab

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u/Dougley cat flair.txt | sudo sh 22h ago

Generally speaking, we do not remove topics that are currently trending. We do add them to the common post list after the trend has died down if it has been overdone.

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u/ColoRadBro69 21h ago

It's definitely been over done and is pulling the sub down. 

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u/ColsonThePCmechanic 19h ago

So the main issue with the provided examples is that we can't actually see the content, now that it has been removed.  Have other examples that are still visible?

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u/Dougley cat flair.txt | sudo sh 10h ago

This is the post that sparked the discussion internally: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/J7iFpCOIqF

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u/ColsonThePCmechanic 9h ago

Thanks.  I remember noticing that first one, but some of those really have me worried.

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u/ColonelRuff 13h ago

This is so wrong. We should Target low quality posts. If an AI generated post is low quality then remove it. What if the person. Has a genuine joke that he uses ai draw sketch for ? That wouldn't be low quality because he thought of the joke.

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u/RatherBetter 9h ago

exactly....its like ppl trying to ban calculator results just cause mathematicians didn't solve it...well..I doubt mods are even technical at this point.

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u/Knighthawk_2511 3h ago

Meme templates are already available??

I mean if the person doesn't exactly know what template he should he can probably ask that to Ai and then use that template. You have to just copy paste text in your template and that's it .

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u/niborus_DE 11h ago

In this case, just trace the image. And while you trace it, fix all the little errors (like misassigned speech bubbles or weird letters) to make the joke actually readable.

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u/ColonelRuff 10h ago

The whole point of AI is to assist in stuff that I can't do. Imagine I have a good joke. I used ai to create a comic strip out of my joke. That comic is almost perfect (modern tools like gpt 4o image generation have really improved) but has slight imperfections which would need really good image editing skills to fix (subtle stuff are always the hardest). Which I don't have.

Would I still be banned for uploading the meme without fixing the slight issues ?

To prevent this rule should be stated as banning "low quality AI posts". But this is already covered by banning low quality posts. That means this rule was not needed at all. In the first place.

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u/inetphantom 9h ago

You can then post it on any other social media, screenshot it there and repost here (preferably without source, like the whole lot of xkcd's and other webcomics).

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u/Vibe_PV 20h ago

Wait... Haven't we been in Spring for almost three weeks already?

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u/RAIDguy 16h ago

Ban all vibe posts.

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u/Multifruit256 19h ago

Memes are low quality.

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u/HumbleGoatCS 18h ago

I shudder to think about how genuinely terrible at programming you have to be to have enough time to moderate this sub.. scary stuff honestly

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u/Tight-Requirement-15 16h ago

Is it bad to want to make people laugh?

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u/seba07 22h ago

I honestly don't know how to feel about this. This community is suffering from reposts, both stolen memes and repeated jokes. At least those AI generated memes are fresh (for the moment). And I would have thought that a community focused on programming is open for new technologies.

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u/Match_MC 21h ago

mods and pretending hey can tell what was made with AI and what wasn’t lmao

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u/yflhx 21h ago

If it's good enough that nobody can tell, it's fair for it to stay anyway imo. But probably 98% of AI posts are just low effort. Put a prompt into ChatGPT with a reused joke and post here.

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u/ColonelRuff 13h ago

This is so wrong. We should Target low quality posts. If an Al generated post is low quality then remove it. What if the person has a genuine joke that he uses ai draw sketch for ? That wouldn't be low quality because he thought of the joke.

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u/HeroBromine35 20h ago

Mods acting like they care about quality on this sub