„We have never had x” is the exact same argument that could be used to a number of things that sparked moral outrages before. This is too much of a dejavu for me to treat seriously.
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Reddit Answers uses AI to answer your questions with summarized information from across the platform.
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Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find information on the platform. The tool, similar to other AI search products, responds to queries by generating well-formatted responses and showing links to its sources.
But the distinction with Reddit Answers is that it sources things directly from Reddit, which means it could be a way to skip Google and get information directly from the source. Reddit has already been cracking down on where you can search for things from Reddit, and Google is the only major search engine that shows recent Reddit results. But Reddit probably would prefer if you did searches right on its platform, and Reddit Answers might prove to be a good way to do so.
Reddit Answers will initially roll out to “a limited number of users” in the US and in English, and it will be available on the web (not on Old Reddit) and iOS. (“We’re working on Android as we speak,” Serkan Piantino, Reddit’s VP of product, said in an interview.) Reddit plans to bring the tool to more languages and locations “in the future,” according to a blog post.
Reddit gave me access to a test version of Reddit Answers, and while I haven’t been able to mess around with it very much, I’ve liked what I’ve seen. There’s a big box to ask a query, but the initial Reddit Answers page also floats a bunch of suggested searches you can click on, like “favorite Nintendo character of all time,” “best mystery novels of 2025,” and “tips for flying with a baby for the first time.”
I clicked that last one, and the tool quickly pulled together a list and some bulleted suggestions with hyperlinks on the text and an arrow to click to see the source of the information. When you click either, a sidebar pops up showing the exact post where the information comes from.
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This is from a test version of Reddit Answers, so things might look a tad different when you try it. But you can get the gist.
A Reddit site search for the same query on Google, on the other hand, just gave me a standard long list of links to evaluate and click through. On its face, Google’s version, which doesn’t have the summaries or bullet points, isn’t as immediately informative as Reddit Answers. But personally, I’m pretty skeptical of AI summaries anyway — they can make some pretty bad errors! — so for me, the Google results are still perfectly fine as a way to explore some potentially useful posts on Reddit.
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My Reddit site search on Google.
Reddit Answers can also pick up on things happening on Reddit within minutes, according to spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, so there’s also a chance responses to your queries will have timely results. I haven’t had much luck with that; on Friday, for example, I asked “who won yesterday’s NFL game,” and instead of pulling up answers about Thursday’s Packers-Lions game, it included details on the Eagles-Ravens game that happened on December 1st.
That might have just been a quirk of the product not being fully ready yet. In my testing, though, Reddit Answers has been much more useful as a jumping off point to dig into a more general topic on Reddit rather than an up-to-the-minute s
Every single generation fixates on something new ones do because they’re scared of change. I was endlessly derided for many things that are norm now. They were supposed to end the world but somehow we keep on going. I see my generational peers turning into own parents and dooming about Skibidi toilet thing. They forgot they were children once too.
Old people yelling at the cloud, as is tradition for every single generation before and likely many to follow.
This „Badger badger badger” song was the funniest shit ever when I was young. The only difference is that this one was an Adobe Flash applet while the new stuff is high definition video since we have more bandwidth now.
It’s not just retro aesthetics, it’s a straight Settlers 2 clone.
I believe all of this is legal thanks to DMCA.
Signed but current support doesn’t bode well. Does anyone know of any successful campaigns of this type? Stop Killing Games has twice as many signatures but isn’t even halfway there.
In 2016 Russian influence campaigns targeted both Clinton and Trump to sow mistrust in the democratic process so it’s not the whole story. This year Trump, on his own (and his billionaire friends) won by a landslide in terms of popular vote. There was interference for sure but it’s not enough to affect elections by this margin. It’s being told like that to absolve ourselves from bearing responsibility for creating a reality where half of the population feels left out to the point where they want to demolish everything.
They always had everything as full text but now some articles require going to their website. Or request full text via Readability / Postlight parser in your RSS client of choice.
I somehow doubt that couple of days is enough for prosecution to make a case or for judges to go through the evidence. Due process traditionally allows for appeals too.
I’m from Poland where previous populist right government set up constitutional court with their own politicians and it will take time to replace them legally. Currently that court is a laughing stock because they rule on everything, mostly outside of what they actually can, seemingly on their own and at moments notice.
What Romanian constitutional court did sounds kinda similar and it worries me. Are we throwing away democracy because otherwise we get fascism? I’m not sure if we’re not going to end with fascism anyway, just with liberal aesthetics.
Those people knew and voted for that guy regardless so this is not fixing anything and looks quite bad for the democratic process, especially to them. Do you believe mainstream parties don’t do the same internet influence campaigns? Suppose this Georgescu guy is guilty of various campaign financing issues but where’s the due process?
This is not going to rebuild trust in democratic institutions for those that voted for Georgescu. This is just kicking the can down the road.
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I’m 40, I’m reflecting on how my own generation is becoming dumb like boomers.
Who discussed social media in the 90s?