ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to August 17.
I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.
You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.
I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.
You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.