TechCrunch · AI· Sarah Perez·· 1 d ago
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
AI summary
Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 71Second 62
Not admittedSum of both 133 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：Reddit因AI爬虫关闭RSS及API
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
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