Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM UTCSExternal LinkReddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity.The company says its AI-powered spam detection tools are blocking 23 million spam views each day, while catching around 25,000 new “spammy posts and comments,” and revoking nearly 2 million “inauthentic votes.” Reddit is also working to combat “coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype,” which we’ve seen with AI systems trying to game AI search results.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Stevie Bonifield
Reddit is clamping down on spammy AI activity.
The company says its AI-powered spam detection tools are blocking 23 million spam views each day, while catching around 25,000 new “spammy posts and comments,” and revoking nearly 2 million “inauthentic votes.” Reddit is also working to combat “coordinated patterns of fake behavior and artificial hype,” which we’ve seen with AI systems trying to game AI search results. [Link: How We’re Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era | https://redditinc.com/news/how-were-keeping-reddit-real-and-safe-in-the-ai-era | Reddit]
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