Reddit, aiming to be internet's 'most human' place, battles, benefits from AI
By Mike Swift ( December 9, 2025, 18:13 GMT | Comment) -- Reddit has a complicated relationship with AI. While the 20-year-old social platform recently sued Anthropic and Perplexity alleging the AI companies illegally scraped its content to train their large language models, Reddit is also reaping the financial benefit of licensing its content to Google and OpenAI for training purposes. But unlike other social media platforms, Reddit's chief legal officer says it’s a human-oriented platform where AI isn’t going to drive content to users.Few social media platforms have a more fraught legal relationship with artificial intelligence than Reddit....
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