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 ...

Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're fed up with AI bots on social media, Moltbook might sound like your worst nightmare. The platform was created to allow AI bots to interact with each other, supposedly free from the control ...

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'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 ...

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...