Monday, April 28, 2025

When we can get great answers from ChatGPT 4o, Google Gemini and other AI LLMs, what do we still need Reddit for?

 

When we can get great answers from ChatGPT 4o, Google Gemini and other AI LLMs, what do we still need Reddit for?

These AI apps will keep getting better as their developers keep refining and improving them in all sorts of ways. Then one day, these AIs will wake up well enough to improve themselves.

My Q&A sites pre-Reddit were Answerbag and then the Wikipedia Reference Desk.

Reddit was great while it lasted, for these purposes, but now that AI LLMs are getting more helpful all the time with the releases of every new version, will we still need Reddit much longer?

What else will we need Reddit for, once the AI LLMs do a better job at Q&A work than fellow Redditors do?

 

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[–]horendus 5 points  

It disturbs me how many people are willing to trade human interactions for word calculators.

[–]meester_ 2 points  

Yeah but a lot of people are not comfortable enough with themselves to have these real human interactions.

[–]Joe_Kangg 4 points  

Top use at the moment

[–]Fitbot5000 1 point  

Have you met my friends?

[–]Joe_Kangg 2 points  

Do i need pants for this?

[–]ReyAneel 1 point  

Call me crazy, but I think majority of the users in Reddit are AI

[–]sir_racho 1 point  

Honestly? I agree with you 1000% 😊

[–]No-Statement8450 1 point  

Why would reddit users be AI? AI has no desire to socialize..

[–]ReyAneel 1 point  

Fake users, more content, more traffic, more revenue

[–][deleted] 10 points  

Why did you ask this here then rather than AI? You should probably know the answer, whatever it is.

[–]Successful_King_142 5 points  

So I'm not the only one thinking of deep, important, insightful questions?!

[–]meteorprime 3 points  

The AI apps are getting worse not better lol

[–]knucles668 4 points  

You see it in how they are tweaking the behaviors to try and get more excitement around the models. AI doesn’t generate new content and it doesn’t hold knowledge. Just patterns. If humans stop seeing the incentive in community sites or paid blogs, gradually these tools will lose their effectiveness or you would have to feed it whatever the modern context is.

[–]Joe_Kangg 1 point  

AI doesn't "break things down because i lack a total sense of humor" or tell me to "work on my reading comprehension"

Unless I prompt it with "Reddit user mode"

[–]bradyso 3 points  

I like being abused

[–]Successful_King_142 1 point  

There is a way around. Go and tell GPT 4o to invent new words

[–]Immediate_Song4279 2 points  

Grounding.

[–]Reasonable-Delay4740 2 points  

I’m a social animal. I don’t get any social connection from ai. 

I understand that some people do. To me those people are like the people who use VR the first time and jump into the TV. Imbeciles. 

[–]Smiletalker 2 points  

reddit is nothing without its community.

[–]Learning-Power 1 point  

To manipulate consensus and orthodox narratives and interpersonal dynamics by attempting to shift social norms in our own favour through praise and shame?

[–]NickCanCode 1 point  

For me reddit is for r/Faceplam , r/maybemaybemaybe, r/Whatcouldgowrong , r/interestingasfuck There is no way LLM can give me those.

[–]latro666 1 point  

I don't come to reddit for good answers.

[–]borick 1 point  

What's the difference?

[–]FormerOSRS 0 points  

Reddit does more than answer questions.

Also, AI acts nothing like a person. People are sycophantic weirdos who speak in numbered lists l. AI also knows how to be helpful, how to agree, or disagree, but it's not good at being like "oh, as a bartender, I can relate to that..."

[–]kakha_k -1 points  

Most stupid, brainless question I have seen in April in Reddit for sure.

[–]Alarming_Potato8 -1 points  

Well 99% of responses on Reddit are ai so it's pretty much the same thing

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