Reddit Cracks Down On Bots And Spam—But AI Search Manipulation May Be Harder To Stop

Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bots and inauthentic content—but AI search manipulation ...
Android

Reddit's Answer to the AI Era? Fight AI Spam With Even More AI

Reddit says it’s leaning further into AI-powered detection to combat the wave of AI-generated spam, bots, and inauthentic engagement flooding the platform in this new AI era. The company claims its ...
The Next Web

Reddit fights AI marketing ‘slop’ with its own AI, as GEO becomes the new SEO

Brands are gaming ChatGPT and Gemini by planting fake Reddit posts. Reddit says its AI now catches 25,000 spammy posts a day. Welcome to GEO.

Reddit’s AI is hunting brands that dress marketing slop up as honest opinions

Reddit is deploying large language models against brands and marketers planting fake conversations that could later surface as trusted recommendations in ChatGPT and Gemini.The Latest Tech News, Deliv ...
TechCrunch

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post

Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch. Their startup journey is a wild ...
Forbes

‘Would-Be Bank Robbers’: Reddit Escalates AI Data Wars With Perplexity Lawsuit

A key notion of the social web — that user-generated content is free to access, but not necessarily free to take — may be going head-to-head with a mammoth legal test. Earlier this week, Reddit filed ...
Reuters

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...