Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

No, they aren’t. The headline is just a giant lie. Why would anyone pretend to believe it?

Reddit was destroyed by bots years ago. So that’s nonsense. But they have two strong reasons to pull public access. First, if the public has access to the data, then companies won’t buy it for AI training. Second, if the public has access to the data, they can prove (as we already knew) that Reddit is full of bots, so there is no reason you would want to buy training data from it.

It’s both. The LLM scrapers are now relentless. They are also closing the door so they can sell the data to Google.

I thought google didn’t want renew the contract since they already scraped everything useful? That’s why reddit is panicking