Reddit Opens LLM Moderation ('Rules Hub') to All New Communities and Locks Old Reddit to Logged-In Users
TechCrunch (surfaced via r/singularity 147 upvotes and r/artificial 104 upvotes / 99 comments)·high signal
Reddit announced August 5 that Rules Hub — an LLM system that interprets the intent of a subreddit rule instead of matching AutoMod keywords — is now available to all newly created communities after months of testing with 700+ communities and the Mod Council Network, ahead of a site-wide rollout later in 2026. Mods choose whether flagged violations are queued for review or removed automatically, and Reddit says the goal is for Rules Hub to eventually replace AutoMod's enforcement capabilities while the rest of AutoMod stays. The same announcement restricts Old Reddit to logged-in users as an anti-scraping measure — a direct problem for anyone whose tooling reads Reddit unauthenticated, and it landed the same week public JSON endpoints began returning 403 Blocked.