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Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I wonder how Reddit investors are feeling when they find out even Google couldn't pull something valuable out of the Reddit data

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yet I still add "Reddit" to a search query when looking for product reviews or technical/home maintenance support, lol

    I can do it really well manually...but Google's AI sucks at it.

    They forgot to account for trolls...and how often trolls would get upvoted for the lulz

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    sarcasm is already hard to understand online, even harder for generative AI

    I know sometimes I would take a peek at the person's comment history to see if they were well informed / a shill for the product. The AI can't do that

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Generative AI doesn't understand anything, it just adds it to it's model. If more people are being sarcastic than genuine in the data set, that'll be more represented in the generated text.

    AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It's probably just taking posts at face value.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    AI could categorize users by competency (i.e. how often they discuss specific topics and agree with some corpus), but I doubt it does that. It’s probably just taking posts at face value.

    This is not being done though right? I haven't heard anything about content ranking with connections outside of Google seemingly using authors name is articles from large news sources.

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