Letting AI run social posts can get a small app punished
BurnFat is a simple app that tracks calories and estimates how much fat a person burns each day. To promote it, AI was given the app details, , and basic prompts, then used to schedule dozens of posts across Reddit, X, and other . At first, the plan seemed efficient because posts appeared regularly, the wording looked polished, and less time was spent writing from scratch.
Within days, the Reddit account was banned. On X, fell, dropped close to zero, and disappeared. This looked like a .
The likely problem was high-volume AI text with little human editing, which can look like spam or low-quality content to . AI often repeats similar sentence patterns and wording, making the posts feel generic and mechanical.
Key points
- Dozens of AI-written posts were scheduled to promote BurnFat across Reddit, X, and other .
- The Reddit account was banned within days.
- On X, , , and nearly vanished.
- Repeated AI wording can make posts look like spam.
- AI drafts need heavy human editing before public posting.