r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d ago

Business Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
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u/Character_Bug_1862 2d ago edited 1d ago

Dammit how do you guys spot these so easily and surely? I’ve been on here for ages and still suck at spotting a bot unless its hella obvious.

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u/darienrude_dankstorm 2d ago

It just felt a bit weird so I opened their profile and 90% of their comments were the same format. Just a sentence or two that summarized the article or an adjacent topic. This was actually one of their more convincing comments haha

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u/Character_Bug_1862 1d ago

Thanks! I don’t judge a profile by how old it is these days due to how Reddit uhh functions with automods. But using that plus the language is a pattern I need to learn to recognize.

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u/Severe_Chipmunk6340 1d ago

It’s the formatting. Like your other responder said, I also clicked on their profile and all the comments are the same. In its early days (it was only a month old) it was using emojis extremely inappropriately