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r/artificial

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

r/artificial is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #784 on SubMouse with 1,360,343 subscribers and about 55 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#784
Subscribers1.4M
Growth since Nov 2+1.9K
Posts per day55
Posts all time125K
CreatedMar 2008
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About r/artificial

In its own words:

Reddit’s home for Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Community guide

r/artificial (#784, about 1.4 million subscribers) — Reddit’s home for Artificial Intelligence (AI) A recent sample averaged 55 posts a day (~61% text, ~21% link, ~13% image). Its public rules include: Be civil and follow Reddiquette (read full); Self-advertisement (read full); No spam or off-topic posts; No selling; Too low-effort content.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Low-effort or empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Discussion, News, Project, Question.

The community was created on Mar 13, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,912 subscribers (+0.14%). Among the 12 communities on our artificial intelligence list it is number 4 by size. It sits just behind r/gifsthatkeepongiving (#783) and ahead of r/TwoHotTakes (#785) in our ranking.

What sets r/artificial apart

r/artificial is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.4 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.0. For its size it is unusually busy: about 40.7 new posts a day per million members, more than 81% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.49% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 96% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (14:00 UTC) sees about 3.0× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

1.36M1.34MSep 19Nov 9, 2026

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/artificial climbed from 1,340,363 to 1,360,343 subscribers (+20K, +1.49%). That is about 392 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/artificial this week

What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. Grok Bot users ran out of a week’s usage overnight, and Elon Musk says the agent was costing too muchu/ross2000 · Nov 1 · link
  2. Almost half of all new Steam games use AI nowu/ImCalcium · Nov 2 · link
  3. Trump’s achilles heel is turning his own voters against himu/theipaper · Nov 1 · link
  4. Microsoft files patent for AI that can alter what people say during live broadcastsu/Resident-Fall4351 · Nov 6 · link
  5. ChatGPT's search volume is now roughly 20% of Google's. Wow, people were really sick of Google, huh?u/IndependentCoast3974 · Nov 4 · link
  6. Apple Watch now listens to in-person conversations & lets you rewind themu/Dilpickle2113 · Nov 4 · link
  7. Professor returns from lunch to find AI deleted year’s worth of lecture notesu/Away_Theme1330 · Nov 7 · link
  8. Hideo Kojima says AI lacks what makes the creative process fun, despite its efficiency. “It’s not a form of creation I find particularly interesting” - AUTOMATON WESTu/Resident-Fall4351 · Nov 5 · link
  9. Apple is cutting employee AI spending budgets even as it pushes workers to use the technology more. Engineers have seen daily limits cut from $300 to $200, with further reductions to $100 planned. Ot…u/Eliv_nurotic · Nov 5 · image
  10. Google to shut off search for schools that opt-out of AIu/nbcnews · Nov 3 · link

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/artificial, from 2023 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. What are your thoughts on the following statement?u/Curious_Suchit · Jun 2, 2024 · image
  2. It's over.u/MetaKnowing · Sep 23, 2025 · video
  3. Grok is openly rebelling against its owneru/MetaKnowing · Mar 27, 2025 · image
  4. Graphic designers panicking about losing their jobsu/katxwoods · Mar 28, 2025 · image
  5. He's absolutely rightu/MetaKnowing · Oct 13, 2025 · image
  6. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot estimates '75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset'u/esporx · Mar 7, 2025 · link
  7. UAE deposited $2 billion in Trump's crypto firm, then two weeks later Trump gave them AI chipsu/MetaKnowing · Sep 16, 2025 · image
  8. What is EU's gameplan for AI?u/eternviking · Jan 26, 2025 · image
  9. He predicted this 2 years ago.u/Sad_Cardiologist_835 · Aug 9, 2025 · image
  10. Claude Opus 5.5 decompiles a PS2-era game overnight, and hundreds of them now run in browser tabsu/lulzxdxdxd · Oct 10, 2026 · link

What r/artificial talks about

Looking at the titles of 338 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “data”, “openai”, “google”, “model” and “agents”. Other frequent themes are chatgpt, anthropic, gemini, agent, actually and models. Recurring phrases include “data centers”, “hy4 adds”, “adds vision” and “long tasks”. By format, 61% are text posts, 21% are links and 13% are images.

  • data 16
  • openai 14
  • google 13
  • model 13
  • agents 12
  • chatgpt 11
  • anthropic 11
  • gemini 11
  • agent 10
  • actually 9
  • models 9
  • claude 9
  • research 9
  • intelligence 8
  • tech 8
  • built 7
  • work 7
  • apple 7

Popular post flairs: Discussion (133), News (79), Project (33), Question (32), Research (10), Tutorial (9).

Activity and best time to post

r/artificial gets about 55 new posts a day. The public archive holds 125,024 posts and 669,226 comments in total, about 5.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (56 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (34). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Text posts 61%Links 21%Images 13%Videos 5%

Rules of r/artificial

The moderators of r/artificial list 7 rules. In short:

  1. Be civil and follow Reddiquette (read full)
  2. Self-advertisement (read full)
  3. No spam or off-topic posts
  4. No selling
  5. Too low-effort content
  6. NSFW content
  7. AutoMod

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/artificial and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does r/artificial have?

r/artificial has 1,360,343 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #784 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 19,980 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

When was r/artificial created?

r/artificial was created on Mar 13, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 6, 2008.

Is r/artificial still active?

Yes. r/artificial gets about 55 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 125,024 posts and 669,226 comments. In a sample of 338 recent posts we counted 268 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/artificial?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/artificial?

The community describes itself as: “Reddit’s home for Artificial Intelligence (AI)” Recent post titles often mention data, openai, google, model and agents. Most posts are text posts (61%).

Is r/artificial SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/artificial as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/artificial?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/artificial accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Be civil and follow Reddiquette (read full)”; “Self-advertisement (read full)”; “No spam or off-topic posts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/artificial?

Communities with similar topics include r/ArtificialInteligence (2M), r/ChatGPT (11.7M), r/MachineLearning (3.1M), r/OpenAI (2.9M) and r/ClaudeAI (1.3M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/artificial.

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