Reddit user exposes r/AIdaily_news as a bot-run anti-AI sub posing as an AI news sub

Dogbold · reddit · 2026-10-11

A Reddit user warns others to avoid r/AIdailynews, claiming it poses as an AI news sub but is actually an anti-AI channel:

• Nearly all posts come from a handful of mod accounts that never reply to comments and appear to be bots
• The mods are active nowhere else on Reddit
• Content is uniformly negative ("Nvidia CEO said ", "Musk says AI taking jobs is good"), with virtually no positive AI news
• Some mod accounts flip between anti- and pro-AI stances, a telltale bot signature
• The author was permanently banned after pointing out the sub's true nature, with no modmail response

The poster urges people not to feed it traffic.

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