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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
Sorry, Bing users.
By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. This leaves out Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other alternatives — and that’s likely because Google has struck a $60 million deal that lets the company train its AI models on content from Reddit. After making its API more expensive for some third-party developers, Reddit reportedly threatened to cut off Google if it didn’t stop using the platform’s data to train AI for free.
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