Hello Explorers,
On or around August 29th, 2025, we became aware of an issue impacting our Machine Learning system aka auto-decisions aka eMiLy. This issue has mainly impacted the auto-resolutions for Nominations and Photo edits, therefore prolonging their decision time but we are looking into more areas that may also be impacted. We hope to provide more updates soon but wanted to share that this is a known issue and the team is investigating it. More updates next week!
-NianticTintino
Thank you for posting about this, as sone of us have been wondering.
Does this have something to do with the fact that reviews in general are now taking much longer until something is accepted or rejected? In my region, the decision time has increased drastically. Before August 28th, the community’s decision time was about 3-4 days, and now two weeks have already passed and nothing happens
. Or has the community in my region simply become less active?
Being that ML is down, this means there are more submissions to review, so yes, this could increase the time it takes for a resolution to be received.
The times when it is not working makes us appreciate the ML model more!
Emily is sleeping when we get fire hydrants in reviews - that’s the biggest hint 
That explains why a photo I recently submitted seems to be taking the slow road through. Thanks for the update!
Get well soon, eMiLy! 
Thanks for the update! 
It is kinda insane how ML down kinda bring down the ratio of my Accept:Reject ratio, like from a normal 7:1 to a 4:1 or even 3:1 per session
At least somehow I get more accepting nomination than usual so…
So what you’re saying is, get the usually acceptable things that Emily doesnt like submitted just now 
Although it has decreased somewhat, screenshots from Google Street View and third-party images downloaded from the internet are still frequently found. Should I report all of them through the reporting abuse feature?
I would use the “Accuracy”, “Photos”, “3rd Party Photo” option.
There is no way to prove Abuse or “Not Knowing The Rules”.
Sometimes images are accepted without anyone else noticing they’ve been plagiarized. If it’s completely unacceptable, I think it’s fine to reject it with third-party images. But if I feel it might be acceptable, I hesitate. eMiLy wasn’t blocking third-party images, but she was rejecting many as sloppy posts. Now, I feel some of those might slip through.
It’s all opinions but when Wayfarer have given us an option of “3rd Party Images” then that points to what they want us to reject on.
If the submitter writes in supplemental “I know the rules but I couldn’t be bothered to go and take my own images so I nicked them from google” then Abuse is the correct action 
Have we received any official comment on when eMiLy might return 
Only the one at the start of this topic.
We just have to be patient. And be grateful for all the hard work it normally does.
Accepted, I had just a bad Reviewing Session
Was really just trying to push staff in to giving an update
I’ve just had about 10 reviews in a row which weren’t garbage. Some I didn’t accept, but they were all suitable for reviewing. The ratio earlier was about 80% garbage. This could be a random good patch - has anyone else spotted an improvement?
Have unfortunately not spotted a difference. I did about 100 reviews today and 15 were instantly rejected for either fake, basic infrastructure signs, or somebody trying to get a house spot. Not much difference.
