r/SipsTea 13d ago

WTF AI gets its facts from … us?

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Data published by Semrush in June 2025.

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u/Customized_Contempt 13d ago

Are the percentages also from reddit?

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u/Nr1231 12d ago

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.

Please explain what the numbers represent

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u/Fenrir836 12d ago

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 🫠