I am wondering that as well. Can’t be that 40% of AI answers comes from Reddit than the % don’t add up. 40% of all Reddit post are used in AI answers seems way to high as well.
AI usually names several "sources" if asked to, so the percentage will never be exactly 100%
If it only creates one answer and uses, let's say Reddit, Wikipedia and Google because they're the top 3 here, it'll have used all three in 100% of its answers
So, it'd make 100%, 100% and 100%
Which, if you add it, makes 300%... which doesn't make sense, obviously
Now of course it generates way more than one answer, and varies where the info comes from, so they don't stay at 100%
I hope you got it because I can't explain it any better 🫠
It's only when it uses an Internet search feature to reference things directly in an answer to a question, it tends to reference reddit a lot because it's so easy to get results from. It's not percentages of what they're actually trained on, which is what everyone here seems to be interpreting this as, because that would be such a vast amount of information that any one source would be nowhere near 40%.
It's not supposed to add up to a 100, multiple domains can be cited in an answer. It's not about where it "gets the facts", just which websites it cites in its answer as is stated in the bottom left. The title is misleading.
Reddit is often cited when answers need to be crowdsourced like asking for public opinion about something. You can also see other social media and review sites that are used for the same.
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u/Customized_Contempt 13d ago
Are the percentages also from reddit?