Google's AI summaries have reduced traffic to websites from the search results page and Reddit is reconsidering the benefits of the deal, the Journal said.
I personally think they may be having an issue with AI content. As in slop is pushing into the platform and it makes it hard to be used as training data for other entities.
Because other AI models are “good” at reddit style comments (pithy, self important, etc…etc…) those AI models will be used to making posts/comments there. Continuing the slop fest but making it worse for other LLMs. If that was going to be their revenue stream, it gets worse as time goes on.
That’s what I’m thinking as well. Surely someone near the top is recognizing how rapidly the slop is overtaking everything. Reddit’s singular strength since the beginning is that it’s human powered, and that the human mods (problematic as they are) do a better job of removing garbage than any automated system ever could.
I personally think they may be having an issue with AI content. As in slop is pushing into the platform and it makes it hard to be used as training data for other entities.
Because other AI models are “good” at reddit style comments (pithy, self important, etc…etc…) those AI models will be used to making posts/comments there. Continuing the slop fest but making it worse for other LLMs. If that was going to be their revenue stream, it gets worse as time goes on.
Yes good observation… it’s becoming a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of…
That’s what I’m thinking as well. Surely someone near the top is recognizing how rapidly the slop is overtaking everything. Reddit’s singular strength since the beginning is that it’s human powered, and that the human mods (problematic as they are) do a better job of removing garbage than any automated system ever could.