Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds

Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reddit wisdom:

  “This”

  “Bacon”

  “OK, boomer”

  pun thread 37 levels deep

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  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!

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    • muse@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Double edit: wow, this is my top comment??

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      • recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Triple edit: omg thank you all for the (totally not useless) awards!!

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How long before the AI answer to every question is simply “username checks out”? :-P

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Narwhal

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bacons

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        at midnit omg we are all le redditors!!!

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We need to stop calling it AI. It’s LLM and there is no intelligence.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I know it’s not “intelligent”, but I don’t get gatekeeping the phrase “AI”.

        We were perfectly happy to use “AI” to refer to the logic of computer-controlled enemies in video games for probably decades.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

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• Odelay42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately it’s pocket change for them.

  Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.

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