AI robots are flooding the market, and Reddit is starting to require suspicious accounts to prove "you are human."

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the platform will require accounts exhibiting "automation or other suspicious behavior" to undergo human verification. He emphasized that verification is only targeted at accounts suspected of being bots, and "most users" will not be affected. Accounts that fail verification may have their features restricted.
Verification is divided into three progressive levels:
1. Passkey, as an initial solution, but Huffman states it can only prove that "someone may have done something," not verify independent identity.
2. Third-party biometric services, such as iris scanning tools like World ID.
3. Third-party government ID verification, which Huffman describes as "the least secure, least private, and least recommended" method, used only in certain regions (e.g., the UK) due to regulatory requirements.
Accounts authorized to use bots will receive an "App" badge to help users distinguish between humans and automated accounts. Reddit currently removes about 100,000 malicious bots and spam accounts daily. However, Reddit does not ban human users from using AI-generated content; each community can set its own rules.
Cloudflare CEO previously predicted that internet bot traffic will surpass human traffic by 2027. Social platform Digg shut down its open testing in March this year due to an "unprecedented bot problem."$BNB