• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Reddit wisdom:

      “This”

      “Bacon”

      “OK, boomer”

      pun thread 37 levels deep

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      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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        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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          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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            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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              Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.

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