Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bots and inauthentic content—but AI search manipulation may be a harder problem to solve.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PCWorld reports that Reddit is exploring identity verification methods including Face ID, Touch ID, and third-party services to combat its growing bot problem. The initiative aims to authenticate real ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich is under fire after secretly conducting a large-scale, unauthorized AI experiment on Reddit, deploying bots to impersonate users and test the ...

Reddit is giving everyone a chance to create bots for their preferences and needs with the new tools coming for the platform as part of the new "Development Platform" for all. The new Reddit Developer ...

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 ...