SubTrends

Averages 65 posts/day, top 5% activity. Most active Fridays around 9 AM UTC. Mostly text posts (67%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
65 18%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
8 2%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
6 12%
Activity Rank #1,766 by posts/day among 92,652 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jul 2026 (Top 5%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#1,766 417
Top 5%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
25%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
64%

r/artificial Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes02550751000102030Jul 1Jul 8Jul 15Jul 22Jul 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Text
Typical Title Length Medium (72 chars)
Peak Day Sunday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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10–99
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100–999
9%
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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 18%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 7
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 2.3K

r/artificial Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

Sun 1 PM
Mon 8 AM
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r/artificial Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Discussion904 (45.2%)5
Project331 (16.6%)4
News313 (15.7%)30
Question161 (8.1%)3
Research48 (2.4%)4
Funny/Meme39 (1.9%)1
Tutorial28 (1.4%)6
Miscellaneous27 (1.4%)1
Media21 (1.1%)8
Education20 (1.0%)1

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

67%text posts

r/artificial Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
actually
109 (5.4%)
37
agents
105 (5.2%)
45
built
102 (5.1%)
32
model
89 (4.4%)
54
claude
88 (4.4%)
65
agent
84 (4.2%)
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models
79 (3.9%)
1210
real
66 (3.3%)
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building
59 (2.9%)
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use
59 (2.9%)
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r/artificial Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
axios.com236
youtu.be201
github.com131
youtube.com121
scientificamerican.com69
linkedin.com618
nytimes.com625
x.com51
theguardian.com45
open.substack.com41

r/artificial Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

We can live without AI, but we can’t live without water. “I have a jar right here. This is the current drinking water in Morgan Country, Georgia, right after a data center was constructed.” This is what the drinking water now looks like next to that data center” Protect our environment

2.3K upvotes 764 comments image Jul 23

American Communities Are Coming Together To Destroy Flock Surveillance Cameras

764 upvotes 56 comments link Jul 15

I have created a Chrome extension that fact checks YouTube videos as you watch

704 upvotes 99 comments image Jun 30

Apple just sued OpenAI. And the details are wild.

481 upvotes 83 comments image Jul 11

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

471 upvotes 212 comments link Jul 27

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

470 upvotes 46 comments link Jul 4

An AI broke out of its sandbox yesterday. Then it hacked a company. Nobody told it to do either of those things.

454 upvotes 314 comments text Jul 22

Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down Flock AI Surveillance Cameras, Says U.S. is Becoming Police State

448 upvotes 34 comments link Jul 7

Xi Jinping calls for more open-source AI: 'China is ready to be more open'

392 upvotes 147 comments link Jul 17

The world's best mathematician won his prize this week and immediately announced he's leaving academia for OpenAI. That landed differently than I expected.

389 upvotes 152 comments text Jul 27

r/artificial Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

r/artificial FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/artificial?

Based on posting volume, r/artificial is most active on Fridays around 9 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/artificial?

r/artificial averages 65 posts per day and ranks in the top 5% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/artificial get?

Posts on r/artificial average about 8 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/artificial get most?

On r/artificial, most posts are text posts (67%)