Business Introducing Reddit Answers

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In line with our mission to empower communities and provide human perspectives to everyone, starting today, we’re rolling out a test of Reddit Answers, a new way to get the information, recommendations, discussions, and hot takes people are looking for – on any topic – from real conversations and communities across all of Reddit.

With Reddit Answers, redditors can ask questions and receive answers using a new, AI-powered conversational interface. Once a question is asked, curated summaries of relevant conversations and details across Reddit will appear, including links to related communities and posts. Redditors can easily read relevant snippets and answers inline from real redditors, jump into the full conversations, and go deeper in their search with their own or suggested follow-up questions.

People know that Reddit has answers, advice, and perspectives on almost anything they're looking for, and AI-powered search is part of our longer-term vision to improve the search experience on Reddit – making it faster, smarter, and more relevant.

Reddit Answers is initially rolling out to a limited number of users in the U.S., with support currently in English; we plan to expand to additional languages and locations in the future. Redditors who want to learn more and be notified when the feature is available in their location can head here.

https://redditinc.com/blog/introducing-reddit-answers (Archive)
 
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This is our Skynet moment. An AI so stupid and cringeworthy which will eventually cause humanity to commit mass suicide.
 
How long does it take to cremate 6 million bodies if you only have a crematorium that can only do 4 bodies a day?
 
But I thought selling Reddit responses as human knowledge was Google SEO's entire shtick
 
If you've ever contributed anything to reddit (G-d forbid you), you're also part of this product. And you did it for free! But seriously, this is another step after blocking search engines that won't pay to access results like Google did. And unlike the "site:reddit.com" trick some people use, you can control what answers people get and is also much more advertiser friendly, just tweak the weights for a certain product, person or whatever whenever they give you money.
 
I initially thought this was going to be like an even dumber and perverted version of Yahoo Answers, but it's going to be an even dumber and perverted version of ChatGPT?
 
Beastie said:
This honestly might just work out for them (if it's not retarded, but it's reddit for it will be). Everyone knows at this point the only way to find real people answering questions on google is to prepend "site:reddit.com" to your search term.
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You'd normally click on Quora until you get to a blurred answer, then ask ChatGPT and be done.
 
"Reddit, how do I get my wife's boyfriend to stop bullying me so much?"

"Reddit, what are your best tips for brewing bathtub estrogen?"

"Reddit, how do you make ends meet as a part-time barista/dogwalker who is $200,000 in debt for a gender studies master's degree?"

"Reddit, what is the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?"

"Reddit, why is Orange Man so mean and bad?"
 
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