Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in.
Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account…
Huffman claims the login requirement is better for Reddit’s user experience and its ads business and is “more protective of Reddit data.” The “vast majority” of unauthorized Reddit access happens “through our logged-out experiences,” though the company will still strike licensing deals of its data with companies, like the deals it made with OpenAI and Google in 2024.
Source [web-archived; 2026-10-29_20-16-09Z]
Related: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping (…cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots…)
No doubt your classmates will say “Use Gemini” when asked about how they got their reference material.
No, I’ve already told my students that we do not use the bullshit machines in my classes.
AndbanyntimenI’veAnd any time I’ve used something with an “ai assistant” or something, I do it in front of them and with a disclaimer. So far it was one time this semester for a thing to analyze classroom responses. It misinterpreted my class question and therefore misunderstood every answer that came in. It was kind of perfect.