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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reddit, like practically every other social media platform, has been struggling as of late with a deluge of bots and AI-generated content. In a study from last year, roughly 15% of posts on the ...

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 ...