Reddit plans to do this by updating its robots.txt file, the "basic social contract of the web" that determines how web crawlers can access the site. Most nascent AI companies (including, at one point ...

Reddit has long had issues with automated accounts and content farms submitting posts and gaming the upvote system. However, ...

Many are worried that killing RSS feeds will destroy one of the last open, user-controlled ways to read the web.

In its announcement today, Reddit said that the recent login requirement for Old Reddit “helped reduce scraping and automated ...

The platform will also be blocking access to RSS feeds starting on Nov. 13.

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

The web forum said it would be creating a waitlist for third-party developers to get their hands on an upcoming toolkit. Reading time 2 minutes Reddit, the centralized online forum, has been coasting ...

TL;DR: Reddit is introducing new measures to label bots and verify human users, aiming to curb automation on a platform that has become a popular hub for automated accounts. The company announced a ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bot activity and ...

Last week, a normal ol’ Reddit thread was hijacked by bots. While it’s not uncommon to hear two bots eerily have a conversation, it’s odd to see them compete for approval and supremacy. User ...

It started out as a bit of a joke. In June 2018, a user on a now-banned subreddit made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion about creating a bot—an automated account that could call out racists by going ...