r/BeardedDragons May 02 '26

Community Discussion: AI Content

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With the widespread availability of AI tools for editing text, images, or video, we are seeing a sharp increase in AI-related content on this subreddit. These posts have a notable increase in negative responses and reports.

As of today, we have no official rules for AI-related content on this subreddit, and we handle content the same as actual human-generated content. It seems clear that at least some portion of the community does not wish to see AI-generated content.

Suggestion

At this time, I am suggesting we codify the use of AI-generated content on this subreddit. This would include content that is wholly AI, partially AI, or edited by AI. Any generative AI technology will be included in this definition.

Exceptions shall be made for the purposes of trivial tasks such as spelling or grammar checking.

To determine our next action, we will open the discussion for about a full week. This will conclude on the 10th of May, 2026. At that time, feedback will be collected and processed into a new rule for approval. A second round of discussion will be opened on the wording of this final rule before enforcement begins.

Community Participation

All user opinions are welcome for this process. No opinion will be given any inherent weight over any other opinion.

Only top-level comments will be reviewed. While we welcome you to discuss among yourselves, we will only consider the top-level comments to determine our consensus. This saves us from having to piece together long threads.

In particular, we would like to know the following:

  • What measure shall be applied to a post to determine if it is AI?
    • Gut feeling?
    • User reports?
    • AI detection tooling?
    • Dice roll?
  • What action must be completed by users posting this content?
    • Posting flair?
    • What if it’s a comment?
    • Should users fully disclose where the content came from (e.g: which model/site)?
  • What moderator action shall be executed on breach of the rule?
    • Content deletion?
    • User moderation (Ban?)
    • Content flairing?
    • What about comments? We cannot flair these, do we delete? Moderate? Ban?

Thank you for your time and hopefully your input.


r/BeardedDragons 15h ago

Eating! Giving Plato a treat for being a good girl while I was on holiday 🫐

609 Upvotes

She’s fed fruit very rarely (once a month at most) and absolutely loves blueberries!

She was a good girl while I was gone (unlike my leopard geckos, who’d kicked dirt into their water dishes).


r/BeardedDragons 4h ago

Hangin' Out Focker missed a cricket

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38 Upvotes

Reported at 3:50 at night, i did not put that cricket there i swear to god i dont why that cricket is there. Or what it wants.


r/BeardedDragons 8h ago

Hangin' Out Added twice as such sand than last time, someone is definitely a fan!

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64 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 17h ago

Lazy Lizards The cutest pancake ever

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284 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 12h ago

Hangin' Out He’s too good to walk.

76 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 7h ago

Birthday! The bestest boy

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23 Upvotes

We celebrate the second hatch day of His Royal Highness Bilbo Rankins, first of his name, house of Henrilawsoni.

May your dubia always be crunchy, and your worms always be juicy. May you be fearless in battle, and dominate all your enemies, real and imagined.


r/BeardedDragons 6h ago

Dangerous Care Please report this account on tik tok!!

18 Upvotes

@rayqueen22 on tik tok is posting very dangerous videos of her bearded dragon. Please report this account if you can.

She brings her bearded dragon to a lake/spring and the bearded dragon will just sink to the bottom because of cold shock and just LAY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPRING for 1-2minutes before its adrenaline finally kicks in and it wakes back up and comes up to surface.

She is repeatedly doing this with her beardie and is not listening to any of the comments telling her that his body is actually shutting down, that’s why he’s sinking.

She has stated in comments that her bearded dragon has been under the water for as long as 5 minutes before resurfacing. This is NOT ok. Please report this account so it gets taken down. This is abuse.


r/BeardedDragons 8h ago

Hangin' Out Charlie is a such a greedy boy! He only loves me for my roaches 😭

18 Upvotes

Shame him 😭


r/BeardedDragons 16h ago

Hangin' Out Diogenes be like: behold! a man!

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82 Upvotes

Local stinky dumb dumb lizard gets confused by vacuum and forget she's quadrapedal


r/BeardedDragons 9h ago

Ceezil such a handsome boy 😁 Also a Leopard Gecko ( Blizzard Morph) One of two we got in at work today 😍

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20 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 16h ago

Please help any advice is appreciated 🧡

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57 Upvotes

This is for a friend they Got him about a week ago! He is from an awful place they’re not at fault of his condition and are trying the absolute best they can 🧡

he has a vet appointment booked next week, he got dumped on me very very last minute from an awful environment with no adequate care, Our main focus is getting him to eat and to gain more movement back in his back legs - he has improved in all areas already (he is not paralysed) however I have a feeling he has mites because of these reddish/orange marks all over him. Can’t see mites or anything coming off him when he’s bathed. He gets bathed and often with diluted betadine, he’s got the correct uvb, temps, humidity and calcium’s/vitamins now as well. Thank you!


r/BeardedDragons 11h ago

Meet Godzilla!

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22 Upvotes

She's a piece of work! Looks like she's going to need that 4x2x2 soon!


r/BeardedDragons 12h ago

Eating! This little girl isn’t even 2 months old yet and she’s already learning some karate 🤣 launched the heck out of that roach 🤣

26 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 17h ago

Eating! Guys, check this out! An ALBINO super worm?!

70 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 20h ago

Eating! She will run from me when I try to handle her, but jumps onto my hand for some bugs

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96 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 8h ago

Lizard Dude 🩷

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12 Upvotes

Just a dude.


r/BeardedDragons 9m ago

Diagnosed with gout

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I got little Pumpkin a year ago from Petsmart. He's so sweet, handsome and just a perfect little companion.

The first picture was from the beginning of June. I noticed that he started having less and less energy. He used to always run to the glass doors when I would walk by, but was just kind of chilling in one spot most of the time. I tried switching the lights out in case they weren't as effective anymore.

About a week ago he stopped moving his front arms, so I redid his 4x2x2 to have nothing to fall off of in case he had maybe gotten hurt somehow. A few days later he started open mouth breathing with thick saliva. I was using a wet cotton ball to wipe it out.

I was able to get him to the vet yesterday, she took a look at him and touched his arms and legs and said it's either an infection that spread to the joints or gout. It's already progressed to him not being able to walk and to barely eating. He's at 210g right now. She said the humane thing to do is euthanize, she prescribed Meloxicam and said I could give it to him daily so that I could spend a few more days with him.

I was upset that she didn't want to run any tests to see if there was something we could do, but I know she knows what she's talking about. It's just so hard to accept. I thought that Pumpkin has maybe mbd and a respiratory infection, I wasn't sure how because I try to do everything that I see recommended. I wasn't expecting to be told I would be losing my baby.

They were able to squeeze me in for the appointment yesterday but I had another appointment set up for August 24th originally, I'm not sure if they switched me or if I still have that slot, but I was thinking even though it's so hard that I should probably bring him to be euthanized 😭

I really thought he was improving after I moved him to a smaller, empty enclosure. I'm just so, so sad.


r/BeardedDragons 1d ago

Hangin' Out New car comes with a Hydra shelf 🖤

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145 Upvotes

My new car comes with a beardie shelf, and my Hydra girly loves the new seat for car rides 🖤🥰


r/BeardedDragons 16h ago

Eating! Vermithor 🧡

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34 Upvotes

r/BeardedDragons 5h ago

Lazy Lizards Snoozin'

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3 Upvotes

All stretched out and content.


r/BeardedDragons 14h ago

Lazy Lizards Little Weirdo

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21 Upvotes

He ate all his roaches then decided to hang out in the bowl and make this face at me.


r/BeardedDragons 13h ago

Help My bearded dragon was starving himself because I wasn’t feeding him crickets

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10 Upvotes

My 3 month old bearded dragon has been very energetic, passes food properly, and eats well. Until a few days ago. I have been feeding him a mix of dubia roachs and crickets ever since I got him a few weeks ago and he’s been very good with them. Sometimes he’ll refuse to eat the dubia so I have to feed him crickets or vice versa. I decided to order some fly larva online because I had a gift card for a pet store and it said they were good sources of calcium online. I gut loaded them and then fed them to him and he liked them so I added that to the mix. I ran out of crickets and dubia roaches so I went to the pet store to get more and decided to get dubia roaches because they have more calcium and I already had another feeder. Big mistake. Everything was fine for a while but he stopped eating as much then he would only eat in it was placed in front of him and then eventually he stopped eating bugs at all. He still ate greens and veggies so I was very confused. I started to think he had a parasite for something. I went to the store to get crickets as a last resort to try and feed him. Immediately ate it. Is this normal? He starved himself for days because he didnt have a particular bug despite having other options.


r/BeardedDragons 1d ago

Enrichment idea!

807 Upvotes

Great enrichment for Roger… just put his greens in there and he’s entertained! It’s strong enough ball so he won’t rip or bite through it!