AI loves Reddit. There are billions of posts and comments combined, offering a treasure trove of human-driven answers perfect for training models like Gemini and ChatGPT on how to sound authentic. Google even signed a $60 million a year deal to access Reddit’s data, but there’s a crucial flaw with citing a self-regulated internet forum.
Trolls, memes, and unreliable info snowball into a lethal cocktail that makes the already often-inaccurate AI models hallucinate. And since Reddit isn’t a database or wiki that strives to offer accurate information first and foremost, it’s hard for a mindless algorithm-driven robot to gauge what’s credible and what’s a shitpost. Early OpenAI models based it on karma, but that’s not exactly a good measurement for authenticity, since shitposts often go viral and accrue thousands of likes. Just look at Hollow Knight Silksong.
There are endless posts from gamers who have been led on wild goose chases by AI, or stumbled upon wildly inaccurate information about their favorite titles, but what happens when the game isn’t even out yet? In the case of FromSoftware’s upcoming Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, it means completely made-up bosses and mechanics confidently ripped from a subreddit...
