Snapchat's My AI feature-an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy-briefly seemed to have a mind of its own. Tuesday, the AI posted its own Story to the app and then stopped responding to users' messages, leaving some Snapchat users disconcerted.

"My Snapchat AI posted a random 1 second story and isn't responding to me AND I'M FREAKED OUT," wrote one user, @RyanJKrul on X (formerly Twitter).

Snapchat AI posted a random 1 second story and isn't responding to me AND IM FREAKED OUT

"I think I've seen this film before.and i didn't like the ending," observed another user @repmiIas on X.

"It went sentient," joked @Zander0009.

The Story My AI posted was simply a two-colour picture that some misunderstandings interpret as the user's actual picture of their ceiling, what is really mysterious about it. If users were trying to have a chat with the bot, there were times when the AI responded to users saying "Sorry, I ran into a technical problem."

Did Snapchat Ai just add a picture of my wall/ceiling to their Snapchat story?

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Although this situation made for some fabulous tweets (er, posts), we regret to say that My AI did not emerge from self-awareness with a desire to share itself through Snapchat Stories. According to the bot, it simply happened because of a technical glitch.

Snap confirmed this outage, which was resolved last night, was only a glitch. (And My AI wasn't photographing your bedroom, by the way.)
"My AI experienced a temporary outage that's now resolved," a spokesperson told TechCrunch.

Yet it makes you wonder whether Snap is adding new functionality into My AI that would allow the AI chatbot to post to Stories. Currently, the AI bot sends text messages and can even Snap you back with images — as wacky as they might be. Does it do Stories? Not yet, so it seems.

At this point, My AI does not have Stories feature, a Snap spokesperson told us, and we couldn't help but wonder if that may be something Snap has in the works.

My AI, a new controversial addition to the app was such that initially was making users leave one-star reviews in the App Store and ask it to be removed from the app, since it pinned the AI at the top of the Chat feed and it could neither be removed nor disabled. The AI also presented safety concerns when results of tests were published by The Washington Post, which revealed the system would respond inappropriately to minors' messages. Snap added further safeguards and parental controls later.

It's been fun to watch how young consumers then reacted to the in-app AI chatbot feature, some bullying My AI for kicks and others still convinced the feature is a little creepy — especially when it started expressing itself through Stories like it had a personal sense of its own.

Why my AI posting stuff … This is creepy pic.twitter.com/rwWAqe2tCO

But for now, My AI is back in its working order, we gather-well, if you can call these random generative Snaps of AI "working" again, that is.