Reddit is working on a new unified interface that will merge its legacy search and AI-powered Q&A features, as well as make its search box more prominently visible in the app.
Well click-through is getting worse and worse the more search engines just give answers themselves without losing you to the actual websites. This must also or even especially affect reddits ability to capitalize the user generated content through ads. Not sure if trying to enter a field that is currently killing itself by showing ai summaries instead of search results is a good move though…
February 23, 2024 / 12:35 PM EST / CBS/AP Google strikes $60 million deal with Reddit, allowing search giant to train AI models on human posts
… from the online discussion site for training its artificial intelligence models and to improve services such as Google Search.
Well click-through is getting worse and worse the more search engines just give answers themselves without losing you to the actual websites. This must also or even especially affect reddits ability to capitalize the user generated content through ads. Not sure if trying to enter a field that is currently killing itself by showing ai summaries instead of search results is a good move though…
And Reddit can blame only themselves for it: