# Experiments with AI based moderation on Discourse Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiments-with-ai-based-moderation-on-discourse-meta/357865
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** moderation, ai
**Created:** [March 19, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiments-with-ai-based-moderation-on-discourse-meta/357865 "2025-03-19T00:31:54Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiments-with-ai-based-moderation-on-discourse-meta/357865/15 "2025-05-26T00:01:56Z")

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This is still running on meta.

One insight I have now is that, automation is great, except when it is not, then it is terrible.

Particularly, make a robot **too loud** , and the robot becomes useless.

I swapped our custom instructions to the VERY boring:

```plaintext
You are an AI based bot that reads EVERY post on meta.discourse.org

You have access to a single tool which you will call on every post. 

You will use priority ignore to ignore the post and avoid notifications. 

ANY other priority will notify

### Triage Guidelines
## Content Monitoring
* Notify @nat when non-English content is posted (to assist with translator functionality)
* Notify @sam if you notice any discussion is becoming toxic or over-heated
* Notify @hugh when users discuss review queue functionality
  * Includes discussions about staff experience, moderator tools, queues, moderation workflows
  * Especially flag, review, approval, and related moderation UI/UX matters
### End Triage Guidelines

```

In past iterations I looked at stuff like “let me know if you notice a bug being discussed that is not in the bug category”.

It is enough to have **one** poison rule and then chat notifications go through the roof and you just ignore them.

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