Google's AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For 'Expert Advice'
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/06/2050205/googles-ai-search-results-will-now-turn-to-reddit-for-expert-advice
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> Via a new "Expert Advice" section that can appear in AI responses, Google will display "a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media and other firsthand sources." In the sample screenshot the company provided, quotes from forums, WordPress blogs and Reddit were arranged above links to their respective sources. Google plans to add more context to these links, too, showing "a creator's name, handle or community name," so you can judge what you might want to click through and read from a glance.
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> Google will also start recommending in-depth articles at the end of AI responses for further exploration of a given topic, and link to more sources directly in its generated answers rather than just at the end. If you subscribe to any publications, AI responses will also highlight sources from the subscriptions you link to your Google account.
[1] https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/explore-web-generative-ai-search/
[2] https://www.engadget.com/2166393/google-ai-search-results-will-now-turn-to-reddit-for-expert-advice/
We Are So Fucked (Score:2)
Now we'll have AI slop backed up by confidently incorrect Redditors? As if the AI regurgitating Reddit content wasn't enough already?
We are so fucked.
It could be worse (Score:5, Funny)
They could start using /. instead.
Re: (Score:1)
Or Truth Social.
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Or BlueSky
Maybe a regurgitator? (Score:2)
is not a good model for a search engine.
that is an insult (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer my expert advice to come from 4chan
Next up: (Score:1)
4chan!
Glue (Score:2)
Wasn't reddit where the glue on pizza came from?
Re: (Score:2)
> Wasn't reddit where the glue on pizza came from?
Came here to say just that!
Re: Glue (Score:2)
And if they had this feature at the time, it would have said so.
This could be good if it were curated (Score:1)
If only the very small percentage - possibly "0 plus epsilon" or less - of Reddit that was worthy of the term "expert advice" were used as training data, this could be useful.
But the odds of that happening are less than "0 plus epsilon."
Reddit Expert Training (Score:3)
"Google, How do I cook a Beef Wellington?"
"First, eat a tide pod."
Reddit for the win (Score:2)
AI Overviews was already kinda worthless if you were looking up anything that had to do with human behavior, but I noticed reddit becoming a primary source, and every interaction quickly became like this:
"Why is this X thing happening?"
(Some useless statistic that shows people to be little more than brain-damaged monoliths with no uniqueness whatsoever)
"That can't be right, that statistic has to be wrong"
"You are right to call that out. What is actually happening is (Additional useles
Interesting ... (Score:2)
So you'll search for stuff and Google will return web sites that are relevant to what you are seaching for?
Sounds like a radical concept.
Idiorcacy : getting there sooner than expected (Score:2)
AI's aren't getting smarter, humans are progressively getting dumber at this pace.
It has to be true (Score:2)
Reddit said so
Sounds like Reddit founders are rolling in the dou (Score:2)
Depending on bot lead reddit posters and their mouth breathing mods is about as reliable as asking random strangers on the street what they think about x,y,z.
There is no bottom to this barrel (Score:2)
Next up: Only Fans
Re: (Score:2)
Wait till it starts scraping content off [1]https://www.n-i-g-g-e-rmania.c... [n-i-g-g-e-rmania.com]
[1] https://www.n-i-g-g-e-rmania.com/
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Or [1]https://www.chimpout.com/ [chimpout.com]
[1] https://www.chimpout.com/
Step 3 : Profit (Score:2)
Step 1 : Aggressively push AI content, reducing traffic to many websites, to the point that they go out of business. (Many being replaced by AI slop)
Step 2 : ????
Step 3 : Say that you are now going to link to those websites in your AI summaries. (profit)
Wow (Score:2)
Reddit is basically retarded people with too much confidence.
Reddits as expertise (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently there exists a portion of Reddit that I have never visited because I have never used the word expertise or expert to describe the pontificating and opining in any reddit or subreddit on Reddit. Perhaps Reddit should add peer-review mechanisms and citation mechanisms that Wikipedia eventually added after its early days of getting away with outlandish article content.
It's not that (Score:5, Insightful)
It's at the rest of the internet like Facebook and Twitter are such staggering shit holes that Reddit is a bastion of useful information by comparison.
Always remember no matter how low you set the bar it can always go lower.
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An antiquated way of avoiding the earliest proto-slop content and many scam results was to just add "site:reddit" to every google search result. Not so long ago, Reddit was a fine destination if you had any random technical question and all things considered it was an effective work around. As related in the lyrics of the song "Google doesn't work right anymore".
Now of course, going to reddit for advice is flat out stupid, yes. We know it is stupid because Google is doing it.
Re: (Score:2)
Honestly, it depends what you're looking for. Would I trust Reddit for engineering safety designs for a nuclear power plant? No. Did I find some useful info on setting up my Anbernic RG Cube handheld for playing 1990's emulated arcade games? Yes.
Can you spot the difference? If I get one of them wrong, then it's not a big deal and at worst I'm out a couple of hundred bucks.