At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…
…yet.
Wouldn't know about this thanks to old.reddit.com - once that's gone I don't see much reason to use Reddit.
Mostly I see a ton of ai slop that pollutes google search results, you’ll see an intro paragraph that looks vaguely coherent, but the more you scroll, the more apparent you’re reading ai slop.
Works on firefox mobile too, just have to go to extensions for all firefox (as opposed to the default mobile firefox extensions page), and add it from there.
With reddit, folks go there expecting some semblance of genuine human interaction (reddit's #1 rule was "remember the human"). So, there's that expectation differential. Not ironic at all.
Reddit right now is in a very bad place. It's passed the threshold where bots are posting and replying to themselves. If humans left the platform it would probably look much the same as it does now.
The result is a noticeable uptick in forums moving to discord or rolling their own websites. Which is probably a good thing for dodging the obvious commercial manipulation, propaganda and foreign influence vectors.
Deep Research is quietly the coolest product to come out of the whole GenAI gold rush.
The google version of Deep Research still searches 50+ websites, but I find it's quality far inferior to that of OpenAI's version.
Or the LLM companies will offer "poison as a service", probably a viable business model - hopefully mitigated by open source, local inference, and competing models.
So much SHIT is thrown at the internet.
There are so many poorly worded questions that then get a raft of answers mysteriously recommending a particular product.
If you look at the commenter's history, they are almost exclusively making recommendations on products.
Like say a hot new game comes out tomorrow, SuperDuperBuster (don't steal this name). I fire up Chatgrokini or whatever AI's gonna be out in the next few days and ask it about SuperDuperBuster. So does everyone else.
Where would the AI get its information from? Web search? It'll only know what the company wants people to know. At best it might see some walkthrough videos on YouTube, but that's gonna be heavily gated by Google.
When ChatGPT 5 came out, I asked it about the new improvements: it said 5 was a hypothetical version that didn't exist. It didn't even know about itself.
Claude still insists iOS 26 isn't out yet and gives outdated APIs from iOS 18 etc.
What if you are the developer of SuperDuperBuster? (sorry, name stolen...)
If so, then you would have more than just the product, you would have a website, social media presence and some reviews solicited for launch.
Assuming a continually trained AI, the AI would just scrape the web and 'learn' about SuperDuperBuster in the normal way. Of course, you would have the website marked up for not just SEO but LLM optimised, which is a slightly different skill. You could also ask 'ChatGPT67' to check the website out and to summarise it, thereby not having to wait for the default search.
Now, SuperDuperBuster is easy to loft into the world of LLMs. What is going to be a lot harder is a history topic where your new insight changes how we understand the world. With science, there is always the peer reviewed scientific paper, but with history there isn't the scientific publishing route, and, unless you have a book to sell (with ISBN number), then you are not going to get as far as being in Wikipedia. However, a hallucinating LLM, already sickened by gorging on Reddit, might just be able to slurp it all up.
"Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Facebook" was the beginning of the end.
not so easy to do at scale or agentically, although you can babysit your way past that probably
Either my BS detector is getting too old, or I've subscribed to (and unsubscribed from default) subreddits in such a way as to avoid this almost entirely. Maybe 1 out of 10,000 comments I see make me even wonder, and when I do wonder, another read or two pretty much confirms my suspicion.
Perhaps this is because you're researching products (where advertising in all its forms has and always will exist) and I'm mostly doing other things where such incentive to deploy bots just doesn't exist. Spam on classic forums tends to follow this same logic.
So basically the exact same thing the humans it replaced were doing but without the "I know better than you" attitude" and "call a professional" as a crutch for not knowing things.
They're fine if you need help troubleshooting residential electrical, but so is any old AI
I use AI tools now and run lots of 'deep research' prompts before making decisions, but I definitely miss the 'community aspect' of niche subreddits, with their messiness and turf wars. I miss them because I barely go on reddit anymore (except r/LocalLLaMA and other tech heavy subs), most of the content is just obviously bot generated, which is just depressing.