Reddit stock sinks on report it may not renew Google AI content deal
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Google's AI summaries have reduced traffic to websites from the search results page and Reddit is reconsidering the benefits of the deal, the Journal said.
  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    7·
    22 hours ago

    I’m sure Google got everything they need. Any new content after 2022 or so is going to be laden with GPT hallucinations and bad data.

    • PacMan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      I mean the eat a rock meme that was floating around was from old Reddit. People have been trolls since Reddit began

    • EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Yep. Wonder what target they will land on next. What places are free of (or low in) AI content nowadays. Unless someone figures out how to stop model collapse, things don’t look good in general, but fuck Google and I hope they get broken up and they continue to trash their AI. Glad John Jump left Google and I hope there is more brain drain over time from that company.

          • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
            2·
            20 hours ago

            Oh really good question. I think something awful is slow but at least it’s not heavily botted already? Maybe try eating them lol. I’m sure it’s already scraping stupid 4chan

            • EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip
              2·
              14 hours ago

              Definitely is. I think the problem is that any site they scrap has to be able to withstand the amount of scraping they are doing without going under. For example if they scrap a small forum, without providing any funds, the energy consumption of that site would be unsustainable. Their bots are scrapping webpages thousands of times a day, with or without permission from the site administrators. That’s a heavy load. That’s also part of the reason why their switch to force AI into search is so dumb. At least under their original model of search, sites would get traffic from real people. Now it’s just bots scrapping without providing any real traffic. It’s killing off smaller sites, while giving traffic to the likes of Amazon. Google should be broken up and they’re search engine reclassified as a utility.

              • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
                1·
                10 hours ago

                Except for user numbers, activitypub/fediverse should be their wet dream. They could just make a fake instance and have content delivered to them, instead of having to scrape.