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 ...

Matthew was the Apps and Games Editor at Android Police until 2025. Reddit's content quality has been slipping over the last decade, with a big drop after the Reddit blackout in 2023. A study by the ...

Reddit will require accounts that exhibit “automated or otherwise fishy behavior” to verify that a human runs them, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a Reddit post today. The verification process aims ...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman shared a new post on the platform about 4the company introducing human verification requirements for accounts or bots they find "fishy." Only the accounts that they detect to ...

Reddit's well-known debate community, r/ChangeMyView (CMV), has become embroiled in an escalating controversy after moderators announced that it had unwittingly hosted a secret AI experiment. It ...

Reddit is looking at potential ways to fight AI bots on the platform, such as ID verification. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in ...

In recent months, a group of researchers conducted a secret experiment on Reddit to see how artificial intelligence can be used to influence human opinion. Now, Reddit says it is considering legal ...

“The company will begin labeling automated accounts that are providing a service to users, similar to how the ‘good bots’ are labeled on X, and it will now require accounts that are suspected of being ...