Reddit User Agreement, sections 5 and 7: Reddit's licence to train AI on users' content, and the ban on scraping without consent (Effective July 1, 2026) (Reddit User Agreement, sections 5 (Your Content) and 7 (Things You Cannot Do))
Reddit takes from every user a licence that includes training AI on their posts, and forbids collecting data from the site except under its terms or a separate agreement. A dataset scraped from Reddit without that agreement carries a contract claim that a buyer's counsel will see.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“For example, this license includes the right to use Your Content to train AI and machine learning models, as further described in our Public Content Policy. ... Access, search, or collect data from the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) except as permitted in these Terms or in a separate agreement with Reddit (we conditionally grant permission to crawl the Services in accordance with the parameters set forth in our robots.txt file, but scraping the Services without Reddit's prior written consent is prohibited)”
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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