Reddit spent the latter half of 2023 considering whether to block the Google and Bing search engines from indexing posts on the site. The decision, according to The Washington Post , was in order to prevent the unauthorized and uncompensated use of its posts to train AI.
Now Reddit has announced it's reached a deal with Google that will, among other things, give the company access to the Reddit Data API “to improve its products and services” which includes “more efficient ways to train models”. In Google’s words, access to said API will grant the company “real-time, structured, unique content from their large and dynamic platform.”
