With over 50 million unique actors users, Reddit has a community for every niche under the sun. The interesting part about the platform is that communities set their own rules for what is and isn’t allowed.
This means different subreddits have have taken very differently to the proliferation of AI content that began in 2022. Some communities banned AI content completely, citing too many low effort posts.
On the other hand, months old AI-oriented subreddits exploded, as information-hungry Redditors looked for places to learn more about the hyper fast progress of generative AI.
Here are the best AI subreddits to help you learn about AI:
- r/StableDiffusion Best AI community for tinkerers
- r/Midjourney Best AI community for beautiful images & funny pop-culture images
- r/ChatGPT Best AI community for… ChatGPT (chat bot)
- r/deepdream Best AI community for surreal art
- r/Singularity Best community about the Singularity (the moment AI becomes smarter than humans)
- r/MachineLearning Best AI community for technical topics
- r/NovelAI Best AI community for Anime
- r/artificial Older AI community for general news
And some smaller special interest communities that are growing fast:
- r/deepfashion Best community for AI fashion design
- r/dndai Best community for using AI in Dungeons & Dragons
Best AI Subreddits
r/StableDiffusion
Best AI community for tinkerers
Members: 120K
Description: Welcome to the unofficial Stable Diffusion subreddit! We encourage you to share your awesome generations, discuss the various repos, news about releases, and more! Be sure to check out the pinned post for our rules and tips on how to get started! Prompt sharing is highly encouraged, but not required.
Official Discord Link: https://discord.gg/jQURagDczT
Stable Diffusion is the model released by StabilityAI that kicked off a huge wave of innovation in the second half of 2022. While other companies had been working on their own models, StabilityAI was the only one to release the code for such a high quality model to the public.
Top Post of All Time: 🐢Turtleybug🐞
r/Midjourney
Best AI community for beautiful images & funny pop-culture images
Members: 90K
Description: An official subreddit for Midjourney related content.
Official Discord Link: https://discord.com/invite/midjourney
I still recommend people start with Midjourney when they are just starting out with AI images. Why? You get a (short) free trial, it’s easy to use, and you get beautiful results straight out of the box. I predict massive growth for the Midjourney subreddit in 2023 simply because it produces high quality that can go super viral.
Here’s a list of cool things to try in Midjourney.
PS: Midjourney also has an anime mode called Niji Mode (or Niji Journey). Here’s the official Discord link for Niji Journey: https://discord.com/invite/nijijourney
Top Post of All Time: Inspired by the previous post, here are some GoPro selfies from the past 5000 years of battles
r/ChatGPT
Best AI community for…ChatGPT (language model & chat bot)
Members: 90K
Description: An official subreddit for Midjourney related content.
Official Discord Link: https://discord.com/invite/openai
Unofficial Redditor Discord: https://discord.gg/A2cCJV7D
If 2022 was the year of AI images, 2023 will be the year of the AI chatbot.
ChatGPT was released November 30, 2022, and stunned the world with the quality and breath of topics you could talk about it with. Pundits called ChatGPT a massive threat to Google, imagining a future where we asked things to ChatGPT instead of Googling them.
For some inspiration you can check out our list of cool things you can do with ChatGPT.
Top Post of All Time: 10/10, must-see moment! ChatGPT just did something that will shock you to your core!
r/deepdream
Best AI community for surreal art
Members: 90K
Description: Welcome to /r/DeepDream! This a community that is dedicated to art produced via machine learning algorithms. The most common types of AI art shared are DeepDream hallucinations, artistic style transfer (also known as Deep Style), GANs, & Diffusion. Other content includes tips/tricks/guides and new methods for producing new art pieces like images, videos, and audio. For the best possible experience, please consider using the old version of Reddit with this subreddit if you are able to.
Official Discord Link: NA
An older community that was created in 2015. Since it features many types of AI art, the images appear more surreal and otherworldly than those posted on other subreddits.
Top Post of All Time: Let’s Dance
r/Singularity
Best community about the Singularity (the moment AI becomes smarter than humans
Members: 184K
Description: Everything pertaining to the technological singularity and related topics, e.g. AI, human enhancement, etc.
Official Discord Link: NA
The technological singularity is a moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence.
Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be difficult for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is often seen as the moment beyond which the course of human history is entirely unpredictable (or very dangerous, depending on who you ask).
A fascinating subreddit for general AI and futurist speculation.
Top Post of All Time: “A journey through a boy’s life” by @Buttah on the StableDiffusion discord, he made it through a technique called “Deforum” which creates an animation from AI generated art
r/MachineLearning
Best AI community for technical topics
Members: 2.6m
Description: Welcome to MachineLearning
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/slashML
The largest sub on this list. For anything that falls under the large umbrella of Machine Learning. Most topics learn towards technical, however news and art are welcome here too.
Top Post of All Time: [Project] From books to presentations in 10s with AR + ML
r/NovelAI
Best AI community for Anime
Members: 27K
Description: Subreddit for the in-development AI storyteller NovelAI. If you want to follow the progress, come join our Discord server!
Official Discord Link: https://discord.gg/novelai
NovelAI started as an AI story writer. In October 2022 they released an anime image generator, which was hugely popular. Now most of the top posts on the sub are anime images.
To learn more about generating anime with NovelAI, get out our Novel prompts list.
Top Post of All Time: Straight Facts
r/artificial
Older AI community for general news
Members: 172K
Description: Reddit’s home for Artificial Intelligence
Official Discord Link: NA
This is an older subreddit about any topic under the general category of “Artificial Intelligence”.
While it does not get very high engagement, it has a useful wiki about getting started with AI and learning materials.
Top Post of All Time: How the AI be walking on the 17th generation
Frequently Asked Questions
It completely depends on the Subreddit. Some Subreddits that have banned AI content will give you a slap on the wrist – others will ban you completely. When in doubt, check the rules of the Subreddit (especially if it is a larger one) before posting AI generated content.
Here’s a list of great Discord AI communities.
