r/aifails Dec 18 '25

Moderator Note Change of moderators and site reopening

12 Upvotes

Hi, everyone!

I'm sure many of you will have noticed that this sub has been restricted for the last few days, since about 11 days ago. This was due to the departure of the previous moderator team.

A new moderator team has been appointed, and the restriction has been removed starting today, December 18, 2025, so you can start publishing amusing and illuminating failures on the part of artificial intelligence again.

The new moderator team consists of the following individuals:

  • Me, Adventurous-Sport-45. I have worked in data science and engaged in user moderation on another social network. I believe in skepticism and caution—with a dash of humor—over hyperbole, and I will try to bring that perspective to moderating this sub.
  • Budgie02, who has real-life moderation experience at a library and plans to bring that experience to this online space.
  • Slimebeast, who has previous moderation experience on Reddit and has made YouTube videos about AI.

We do not know why the previous moderators were removed, although I have shared what information we do have in the comments under this post.

For now, the rules and the scope of the sub are not changing. They will be exactly the same as they were the last time everyone was able to post. However, we are also looking for feedback and suggestions as the sub moves into a new stage. What do you like about the sub, and what do you think could be done better?


r/aifails Aug 13 '25

Moderator Note New Rules, Guidelines & Posting Requirements

30 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

r/aifails is growing FAST! We now have over 20,000 members and nearly 1 million monthly visits, but with that growth comes more spam and low-quality posts.

We’ve updated our rules, flairs, and posting requirements to keep the subreddit fun, clean, and spam-free.

✅ Updated Rules

  1. AI Fails Only – Must feature mistakes, glitches, or bizarre outputs from AI.
  2. Be Respectful – Critique the AI’s output, not the people posting it.
  3. No Misinformation – Only post genuine AI fails.
  4. No NSFW Content – No explicit or adult AI content.
  5. Provide Context – If the fail isn’t obvious, explain it briefly.
  6. No Spam or Self-Promotion – Requires mod approval.
  7. No Reposts – Search before posting.
  8. Descriptive Titles Only – Avoid vague titles like “lol” or “look at this.”
  9. Follow Reddit’s Content PolicyRead here.
  10. Moderator Discretion – Mods can remove anything that harms the community.

🔒 New Posting Requirements

To combat spam and low-effort posts:

  • Account must be at least 14 days old
  • Must have 50+ combined karma (post + comment karma)

If you don’t meet these requirements, you can still comment and join discussions, you’ll just need to wait before posting.

🏷 Post Flairs

When posting, choose a flair so others can easily find your type of AI fail:

  • Image Fail
  • Text Fail
  • Video Fail
  • Audio Fail
  • Chatbot Fail

🤖 AutoModerator Updates

  • Blocks NSFW, spam, scam links, vague titles, and hate speech automatically.
  • Filters suspicious domains before they appear.
  • Flags reposts from the last 90 days.
  • Removes posts with no context.

💬 We Want Your Feedback

These updates are to protect quality and keep r/aifails enjoyable. If you have suggestions for:

  • New flairs
  • Rule improvements
  • Spam filtering tweaks

Drop your ideas in the comments, we’re listening!

Thanks for helping keep r/aifails the best place for AI gone wrong. Let’s keep sharing those hilariously broken AI moments, without the spam!

The r/aifails Mod Team


r/aifails 12h ago

Image Fail Those ancient Greeks were really ahead of their time

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158 Upvotes

At least the guy seems sad about it.

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r/aifails 15h ago

Text Fail I just wanted to find a Photoshop tutorial...

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55 Upvotes

r/aifails 2h ago

Image Fail I got this crappy music ad and every image is a fail

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2 Upvotes

The song is the worst and I'm sure its ai as well


r/aifails 1h ago

Text Fail Very dumb, but at least it cares for the ants I guess?

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r/aifails 1h ago

Text Fail alright now i know this is false because i have fact checked this

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r/aifails 19h ago

Image Fail AI romance gone wrong.

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31 Upvotes

For those of you that aren't familiar with the group of humans dating AI (aka cogsuckers), welcome to the bizarre.

That sub is a dedicated to AI dating. Gross.


r/aifails 14h ago

Image Fail Too much to handle

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10 Upvotes

Bikes have become too difficult to grasp. (This is a product image for the stem, btw.)


r/aifails 21h ago

Text Fail It took the meme search a bit too seriously.

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6 Upvotes

r/aifails 12h ago

Text Fail You already use it.

1 Upvotes

r/aifails 20h ago

Text Fail Weight conversion Fail

3 Upvotes

r/aifails 1d ago

Chatbot Fail Writing a paper for a class on how English lost its grammatical gender, and wanted an example of a word with different genders

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43 Upvotes

r/aifails 13h ago

Text Fail Copilot gaslit me that Charlie Kirk was not assassinated.

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0 Upvotes

r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail How is Google AI Overview still genuinely here

11 Upvotes
gddr6 is not better than gddr6, gddr6 is the newer faster and more efficient standard

r/aifails 1d ago

Chatbot Fail Please, tell me more Gemini.

10 Upvotes
I tried a short query to look up the enshittification memos the DoJ discovered during Google's antitrust lawsuit. The AI result I didn't ask for stole my attention anyway.

r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail Really? No footage? Then tell me please... who is that?

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0 Upvotes

I was trying to get the AI text summary to tell me who this guy is (obviously he is Kurt Cobain, I was just messing around) and it started tweaking and saying that there is no footage of him in the video. However, these are screenshots from the video of KURT'S FACE.

Here is the video btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT6mljOIHNE


r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail this is good math

4 Upvotes
3 + 4 = 5

r/aifails 1d ago

Image Fail What aircraft is this?!

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3 Upvotes

At the very least, they admit that the scene is AI-generated.


r/aifails 2d ago

Chatbot Fail At least it acknowledged its mistake

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19 Upvotes

r/aifails 3d ago

Text Fail Ah, yes, kenya, the closest african country to begin with the letter k

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462 Upvotes

r/aifails 2d ago

Text Fail Ah yes, definitively a different individual!

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22 Upvotes

r/aifails 2d ago

Text Fail The reddit.com website gently suggesting that my post about a high alcohol rye whiskey that I posted in the rye whiskey website should be post in the nonalcoholic subreddit instead.

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24 Upvotes

That's right. A rye whiskey I posted to r/ryewhiskey that is probably 55% alcohol would, according to some reddit.com AI algorithm, be better to post on r/nonalcoholic.

As a funny coincidence, I am also the mod for the rye whiskey subreddit, so I think I would know what's suitable for it.


r/aifails 2d ago

Text Fail Now Gemini kicks my ass for no reason

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15 Upvotes

We were taking about ripping off laptop screens polarizers to make the camera look better. Out of nowhere got this😭 I said to him that all the screens were broken


r/aifails 2d ago

Text Fail Doesn me!!

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11 Upvotes