As AI rewrites search for marketers, Reddit fights to stay the same

Plus, Flock moves to calm a backlash over its license-plate scanners and Instagram gets a new wordmark.

Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search ...
The Next Web

Reddit fights AI marketing ‘slop’ with its own AI, as GEO becomes the new SEO

Brands are seeding Reddit with fake, chatbot-friendly posts so that ChatGPT and Gemini repeat their marketing as genuine advice. Reddit says its own AI now catches 25,000 spammy posts a day, the ...

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win

Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. The search giant accused the web scraper of circumventing its anti-scraping technology and then ...
The News International

Old Reddit set for more changes as AI scraping fight mount

Old Reddit, the legacy desktop interface preferred by long-time users since the platform's 2018 redesign, faces further changes as Reddit steps up its fight against AI data scraping.The company ...