Reddit turns 20, and it’s going big on AI

Reddit has go known arsenic the spot to spell for unfiltered answers from real, quality users. But arsenic the tract celebrates its 20th day this week, the institution is progressively reasoning astir however it tin augment that quality enactment with AI.

The archetypal rollout of AI tools, similar Reddit Answers, is "going truly well," CTO Chris Slowe tells The Verge. At a clip erstwhile Google and its AI tools are going to Reddit for quality answers, Reddit is going to its ain quality answers to powerfulness AI features, hoping they're the cardinal to letting radical unlock utile accusation from its immense trove of posts and communities.

Reddit Answers is the archetypal large user-facing portion of the company's AI push. Like different AI hunt tools, Reddit Answers volition amusement an AI-generated summary to a query. But Reddit Answers besides precise prominently links to wherever the contented came from - and arsenic a user, you besides cognize that the nexus volition constituent you to different spot connected Reddit alternatively of immoderate SEO-driven garbage. It besides helps that the citations consciousness overmuch much salient than connected tools similar Google's AI Mode - a instrumentality that quality publishers person criticized arsenic "theft."

"If you conscionable privation the abbreviated summary, it's there," Slowe says. "If you privation to …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.