Amazing!
They've actually found a way to make the Reddit search less effective. I genuinely didn't think that was possible given how low the bar they were starting from was, but here we are.
Reddit's internal search engine is often criticized as one of the site's weakest features but the platform claims AI integration will make it "faster, smarter, and more relevant." Reddit Answers, which the site announced has begun rolling out to a limited number of users in the US today, allows redditors to "ask questions and …
"you'll start to see this over the course of the next year,"
They can never say what AI is good for right now, right at this moment, despite constantly ramming this down our throats. The bullshit line is always "It's GOING to be amazing"
Which begs the question "So why should I just not wait until it's ready?"
I have to think (or hope) that most complaining on reddit is just pro forma (as it usually is), because anyone left there has to know:
1) reddit's 'new' management are some of the shittiest of shitty people.
2) reddit is where *google* goes to turn its own AI search into a clown show of hilariously wrong life ending or at least crippling suggestions.
3) reddit is not the sort of company that would be able to implement any sort of useful search - they never have been able to in their entire existence, how could they suddenly?
4) This is very obviously just to pump their stock up with more AI bullpuckey.
So anyone who was seriously expecting anything useful is just A Very Special Boy.
When has reddit been anything other than a cesspool for people who can't function in society without proper supervision. AI searching will only bring the irrelevant snark to your life much sooner. If you're already on reddit? delete your account. It's the only reasonably smart thing to do.
Conversational interfaces are the worst interfaces, so ineficient.
I don't want an ineficient search engine that returns "curated summaries" I want one that returns links to relevant posts and stays out of my way.
Not that I've ever used Reddit's terrible search since DDG, Google, etc work far better.
Fuck Spez.
Reddit knows that at the end of the day, having a first rate search for what amounts to a mountain of the worst spewing of social abominations, creepyness, and outright stupidity, buys them nothing, rather an AI fine tuned and blinder-ed to obfuscate the true nature of that pile of waste is welcomed by their PR droids.