Technology @lemmy.world VITecNet @programming.dev 8 mo. ago

Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

www.techradar.com Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

Reddit over-indexing on Google, then the $60 million Google AI deal: Is something else brewing?

Reddit @lemmy.world Abaixo de Cão @lemm.ee 8 mo. ago

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Many people volunteered to moderate reddit for the benefit their community. The company screwed over the community and the CEO was compensated $193mil last year Source

Why would anyone stay for free?
- Why would anyone stay for free?
  
  The communities and content maybe. Lemmy is very lacking in both areas.
  
  Both community and content are created by people. If people come here there will be community and there will be content.
- The problem is, those AI companies can do the same thing to lemmy, and much easier anyway. We won't get paid shit for our words.
  
  Maybe it’s time to move away from fact based discussion and more towards stupid puns and satire.
60,000? Reddit used to be a hub, I had subs with many times that number of users. You really fucked up, Steve, but at least you're still in your comfort zone with that.
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  But it also refers to “a staggering 73 million daily active users”, which I wouldn’t really say is a staggering number in $current_year when other social networks have orders of magnitude more.
  
  Well, there's definitely no social network with "orders of magnitude more"... Even if that's only 2 orders of magnitude, that's almost the entire population of the world.
  
  So this made me curious and best I can find there seem to be only a few social media platforms that even have 1 order of magnitude more:
  
  Facebook, with 2.1 billion DAU as of Q4 2023
  
  Youtube, which has 2.7 billion monthly active users (I'm speculating that it has at least 730 million DAU based on that number)
  
  WhatsApp (which wikipedia notes has 2 billion MAU and had 1 billion DAU when it had 1.3 billion MAU, so presumably it's around 1.5 billion DAU now)
  
  DAU is a pretty rare statistic to find reported on, so it's hard to say if there are others.
  
  Don't discount the possibility of it being a shill for their sham ipo.
So AI is taking away having to answer the same questions over and over again for lazy people, are we complaining?
- To me it brings about the question of, "What is the shelf life of answers?" Like if reddit had existed 100 years ago, how do you go about "cleaning" a model of deprecated information? Or maybe you don't? I know very little about LLMs, just a thought.
Revive Google Reader you nincompoops.

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