Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources | TechCrunch
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While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Somehow normal folks do not feel welcomed in a place that routinely calls for the demise of all Western civilizations?

          So no, we didn’t make a place that serves up a large amount of niche content.

          Edit: then again, Reddit itself went and killed itself so… yeah I guess we are the most Reddit-like place left?

    • Carnelian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      It’s literally all blatant bot posts now. Most popular subs from back then are unrecognizable

      • zealouscurmedgeon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Yep and most of them couldn’t be any more obvious with their agenda pushing. It surprises me though that Reddit lacks exposees into the bots and it’s the only major social media without one (to my knowledge) while we have Cambridge Analytica for FB, foreign bot farms and dumbasses getting paid to ragebait on X, etc.

  • restless [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    They want to be the middleman so they can inject ads and promotional content and pass it off as an authoritative AI assessment of whatever you’re asking about.

    This is not helped by the fact that a lot of companies already pay people to say good things about their brand and products