Reddit's New Changes Aim to Protect the Platform from AI Crawlers
On Tuesday, Reddit announced an important update to its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), a critical component that informs automated web bots about their permissions to crawl the site. Traditionally, this file has guided search engines in accessing content to help users find information. However, the growing influence of AI has prompted concerns about websites being scraped without proper attribution, and the information being used to train AI models.