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The problem is that for some searches and answers Reddit or other social media is fine.
by helsinkiandrew 2y ago
The problem is that for some searches and answers Reddit or other social media is fine.
- dgellow 2y agoBut only if you do a lot of filtering when going through responses. It’s kind of simple to do as a human, we see a ridiculous joke answer or obvious astroturfing and move on, but Reddit is like >99% noise, with people upvoting obviously wrong answer because it’s funny, lots of bot content, constant astroturfing attempts.
- morkalork 2y agoThe users of r/montreal are so sick of lazy tourists constantly asking the same dumb "what's the best XYZ" questions without doing a basic search fit, the meme answer is always "bain colonial" which is a men-only spa for cruising. Often the topmost voted comment. I just tried asking gemini and chatgpt what that response meant and neither caught on..
- eldaisfish 2y agoNo, it isn't. Humans interacting with human-generated text is generally fine. You cannot unleash a machine on the mountains of text stored on reddit and magically expect it to tell fact from fiction or sarcasm from bad intent.
- helsinkiandrew 2y ago> You cannot unleash a machine on the mountains of text stored on reddit and magically expect it to tell fact from fiction or sarcasm from bad intent I didn't say you could, but that a machine can't decode the mountains of text doesn't mean that the answer isn't (perhaps only) on Reddit. I don't think people would be that interested in search engine that just serves content from books and academic papers.