Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice

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Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice
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Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules or get blocked. The company said inthat it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol , which allows it to block automated scraping of its platform.

The company said it will also continue to block and rate-limit crawlers and other bots that don’t have a prior agreement with the company. The changes, it said, shouldn’t affect “good faith actors,” like the Internet Archive and researchers.websites’ robots.txt protocol, which is used by publishers to tell web crawlers they don’t want their content accessed. Perplexity’s CEO, in a recentIn a statement, a Reddit spokesperson told Engadget that it wasn’t targeting a particular company.

It’s not the first time the company has taken a hard line when it comes to data access. The company cited AI companies’ use of its platform when it began charging for. The agreements allow AI firms to train their models on Reddit’s archive and have been a significant source of revenue for the newly-public Reddit. The “talk to us” part of that statement is likely a not-so-subtle reminder that the company is no longer in the business of handing out its content for free.

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