Reddit tests two AI formats for text posts

Reddit is testing 2 AI formats—audio and portrait video—that turn selected text posts and comments into a “Read”/“Play” experience, with synthetic voices, captions, and highlighted words, according to Mashable’s report on the trial. The test is limited to a few manually selected English-language posts for now, but Reddit plans to expand it from the web to iOS and Android; the archive’s AI-content reporting analysis makes the adjacent risk clear. Community platforms copying the format should measure whether synthetic narration increases useful session time without turning user-written context into feed filler.