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I do wonder how this plays out over time. As people go to AI to ask questions, instead of places like Reddit, where will AI get new or more current information?

I also question if we even want to lean on sites like Reddit so hard. It turns AI into a way to effectively ask random people on the street, rather than good factual information from reliable sources.

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I share those concerns. Reddit is already 90% crap, with 10% decent info. People who rave about reddit focus on that 10%, and ignore the 90%. But how is AI going to properly filter that?

I also worry about the echo chamber effect. If people learn from AI, and AI is updated based on reddit... which is full of people talking about what they learned from AI.... you can see the echo chamber being built before our eyes.

The voting cybernetics on Reddit already made it a bad AI. Subreddits would just decide certain memes were real. I remember one technical subreddit for a project I was involved in that decided things worked a certain way. I would show up to correct people and get downvoted while people posting popular myths would have their posts at the top of the threads for everyone to read.

It really killed the site for me. I think going there will often mean you understand less, not more.

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