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Reddit is cracking down on AI bots. The social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network has sent a warning to the those accessing Reddit’s data without permission. Ben Lee, the company’s chief legal officer told The Verge: “It’s a signal to those who don’t have an agreement with us that they shouldn’t be accessing Reddit data. “It’s also a signal to bad actors that the word ‘allow’ in robots.txt doesn’t mean, and has never meant, that they can use the data however they want.” The company is not targetting any entities in particular but said it will be blocking those who do no…

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