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The Morning After: Reddit is blocking AI search engines that don’t cough up for access

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When Reddit said last month it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, most of us assumed it was to tackle chatbot training. It turns out the site/service/fandom battleground also appears to be blocking search engines other than Brave and Google, the latter of which reportedly inked a deal earlier this year with Reddit worth $60 million annually. A Reddit spokesperson told Engadget the empty search results are because these engines won’t agree to the company’s requirements for AI training.

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