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09 Oct

The White House has started posting on Reddit

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Social media can play a critical role in spreading information (and misinformation) during a crisis. In an effort to promote the former and curb the latter, the White House has started getting active on Reddit.The profile was created on January 7, 2021, the day after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol in Washington DC. However, today was the first time the account did any public posting. All of the posts from the White House profile today have been sharing information related to relief efforts in response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, which have been causing devastation along the east coast of…

25 Sep

How to Post to Reddit Using Python

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In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to automate posting to Reddit using Python. This guide is designed for beginners looking to interact with Reddit’s API programmatically, whether for personal use, bot creation, or automating your social media workflows. By the end, you’ll be able to post to a subreddit with a script that handles authentication. 1. Create a Reddit App To interact with Reddit’s API, you’ll need to register an app. Here’s how to do it: Go to the Reddit Developer Console: Head to reddit.com/prefs/apps. Click ‘Create App’: At the bottom of the page, find the “Create App” button.…

25 Sep

Reddit is rolling out AI-powered translations to 35 countries

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As world wide as the web is, language barriers still often limit how much of a site people can explore. Well, Reddit is using AI in an attempt to lessen this issue. The company announced Redditors across more than 35 countries will soon be able to automatically translate their entire feeds. The tool first launched in France earlier this year.The machine learning-powered feature is now available in Brazil and Spain, where Redditors can click a translate icon displayed in the overflow menu. This move will translate their entire feed, including comments, into Portuguese and Spanish, respectively. The setting also allows…

13 Sep

Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI

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Take, for example, the other recently solved internet mystery: The source of the song that became known as “Everyone Knows That.” After nearly three years of online investigative work, a pair of Redditors found the song—titled “Ulterior Motives”—after hearing a similar song in an adult movie clip on YouTube and watching literal hours of porn that had possibly been scored by the songwriters credited on that clip.During the hunt there had been speculation that the song was AI-generated or part of some stunt. If the detectives had gotten too distracted by that, or if someone had tried to use AI…

29 Aug

Reddit is back up after a 30-minute outage

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Reddit is back up after an outage took the site out for half an hour this afternoon. The site appears to have been down across the board, apart from a blank homepage that didn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website reads. Attempting to navigate to any specific subreddit brought up the error you see above: “We were unable to load the content for this page.” However, as of 4:45PM ET, we began to see seeing subreddits and comments loading again as usual.The Reddit status update page lists the problem as “Degraded Performance for reddit.com,”…

28 Aug

Reddit is back up after a 30-minute outage

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Reddit is currently having some problems. The site appears to have been down across the board, apart from a blank homepage that doesn’t contain or point to any content. “We encountered an error,” the website reads. “We were unable to load the content for this page.” However, at 4:45PM ET, we’re now seeing subreddits and comments loading again as usual.At least for a time, clicking on any subreddits showed a “Community not found message.” The Reddit status update page lists the problem as “Degraded Performance for reddit.com,” and was initially flagged as “Investigating.” At 4:32PM ET, the status was updated…

06 Aug

Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits

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Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform. During the call, the Reddit co-founder said the company would begin testing AI-powered search results later this year.“Later this year, we will begin testing new search result pages powered by AI to summarize and recommend content, helping users dive deeper into products, shows, games and discover new communities on Reddit,” Huffman said. He didn’t say when those tests would begin, but said it would use both first-party and third-party models.Huffman noted that…

01 Aug

Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content

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Reddit’s chief executive officer Steve Huffman didn’t pull any punches with Microsoft in an interview with The Verge. He called out Microsoft and other AI search engines like Anthropic and Perplexity for not paying for the information they take from Reddit, some of which have already been blocked from Huffman’s website.Reddit has deals in places with companies like Google and OpenAI to receive compensation for using its posts and information. The Verge paraphrased Huffman as saying Microsoft was one of several companies "refusing to negotiate," but a Reddit spokesperson disputed this characterization. The spokesperson told Engadget that Reddit and Microsoft…

24 Jul

AI search engines that don’t pay up can’t index Reddit content

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When Reddit said last month that it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, everyone’s (rightful) first reaction was “AI, AI, AI.” However, now that the change has taken effect, chatbot makers may not be the only ones being locked out. The widely used forum also appears to be blocking major search engines other than Brave and Google, the latter of which reportedly inked a deal earlier this year with Reddit worth $60 million annually. However, a Reddit spokesperson told Engadget that the empty search results are about Google’s rivals not agreeing to the company’s requirements for AI training.…

25 Jun

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 in that it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), 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.Reddit’s notice comes shortly after multiple reports that Perplexity and other AI companies regularly websites’ robots.txt protocol, which is used by…