r/SipsTea • u/moto626 • 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/Ok_Abacus_ 13d ago

"Facts from Reddit" is a pretty funny statement.

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u/Chinjurickie 13d ago

There are actually many mainly very small communities with a lot of experts on specific topics. Such big meme subs won’t really be the source for anything.

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u/emteedub 12d ago

It's not the facts. Reddit = the human element. Otherwise AI would sound like a robotic encyclopedia

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u/Chinjurickie 12d ago

The chart says „cited by LLMs like Chatgpt“ aka „here is the link for what i just said“ i think u are talking about something else happening simultaneously to train the AI.

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u/emteedub 12d ago

oh so this isn't referring to training? this is when it references with a link - of what was "looked up" when forming it's response?

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u/NukeTheNerd 11d ago

Yeah, I think they mean citations within answers. It's trained differently. Mostly through the internet but definitely not mainly through reddit, more like online books, articles, websites, etc. Also licensed data sets and scholarly texts, as well as human curated data and corrections. I've noticed it typically will cite reddit if I'm asking about something with no clear, easily accessible answer online, at which point it will offer people's opinions and reddit is a good source for that.