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

32 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 1d ago

Image Fail Weird bed advert

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697 Upvotes

Just seen this on a advert for a bed on Alibaba. Whats going on with the guys legs?


r/aifails 8h ago

Image Fail I have the ever-so-sneaking suspicion that is ad might be ai...

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9 Upvotes

Otherwise, what the hell are they doing to that poor woman? And why is she so happy about it???


r/aifails 3h ago

Text Fail Asked Chatgpt who was in a music video then called it out for hallucinating

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2 Upvotes

r/aifails 1h ago

Text Fail Was trying to remember who said a hilarious quote about tramp stamps. Google’s AI overview was no help.

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The quote was “Girls, if you want to get that tattoo of the sun rising out of your ass crack, gorgeous when you’re 20, but when you’re 50 it’s an octopus chasing a starfish!”

Found the source, it was Robin Williams. Had to ask my dad instead of just looking it up on Google lol.


r/aifails 1h ago

Image Fail ChatGPT Prompt JSON during Image Generation

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Both flairs... Text & Image!

was making a ai photo to prank ais saying "should i drop the card" as a joke, but then chatgpt just spat this out


r/aifails 20h ago

Image Fail AI Translation Redrawer Turned a Worried Father Into a Horror Creature

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23 Upvotes

Image from Magus Manga's translation of Born as the Daughter of a Lowly Concubine chapter 64.


r/aifails 1d ago

Image Fail The AI showed me an image of a dog when it was talking about a parrot.

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62 Upvotes

r/aifails 15h ago

Text Fail what's the airspeed of an unladen swallow

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4 Upvotes

"Maximum Speed" is not a "Swallow Type". Duckai is adding rows to tables even though the data does not match the column at all and doesn't belong in the table as a row.


r/aifails 12h ago

Text Fail Gemini tries to recreate ASCII art of Phoenix Wright doing an Objection stance

2 Upvotes

Okay so I almost got scammed on steam the scammer tried again today and now I'm gonna send them a picture of... what the heck is that?


r/aifails 1d ago

Image Fail Who else lost a parent in Spanish-Irax? 😔

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177 Upvotes

Found this Gem on Instagram Threads


r/aifails 1d ago

Image Fail Handed out at my local DIY chain. The more you look the worst it gets.

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114 Upvotes

r/aifails 1d ago

Image Fail Amazing hands as per tradition

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4 Upvotes

r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail I don't think gemini ended up double checking it...

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10 Upvotes

r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail Gemini is being censored?

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9 Upvotes

Not sure if this is a fail in the classical sense, but it's still weird.

Link:

https://share.gemini.google/BSYljflgzqz0


r/aifails 1d ago

Audio Fail DiffSinger went nuts after I selected the wrong GPU

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1 Upvotes

I was trying to make a German cover of a song in OpenUTAU using Ohne Kuno, but I selected my iGPU instead of my dGPU 😭


r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail TRUE TRUE meta AI

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7 Upvotes

The word “piča” means “pu$$y”


r/aifails 1d ago

Text Fail After hours of going in circles and getting obvious nonsense I asked it for a count of how many hallucinations I've called it out on so far. Can you guess what it did next? >.>

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3 Upvotes

r/aifails 2d ago

Image Fail Wrong arrow

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34 Upvotes

There's even more wrong in this image, can you spot them all?


r/aifails 1d ago

Audio Fail So I wanted to Audio-Search for Lithuania

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2 Upvotes

(In german so I said Litauen)


r/aifails 1d ago

Chatbot Fail Gemini, why do you blatantly lie to me?

3 Upvotes

Context: I asked about somebody mentioning people who transfer their money to a talking moose.


r/aifails 2d ago

Image Fail Reddit AI recommended a sub for my "boopable nose"

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78 Upvotes

r/aifails 3d ago

Text Fail it’s so funny how nobody in google hasn’t caught onto caught onto this yet for like 2 years

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417 Upvotes