Reddit seems to use Ai to analyze images, so the content can be indexed by the search. In example I searched for my name (which is also used for the my blog) to see if there are recent posts with “thingsiplay”, because I saw some spike in the stats. But what I instead found is a screenshot of a comment from me made in YouTube. There is no text attached to the post or title, so it must have analyzed the content, right?

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=thingsiplay&t=week results in

and the post is

Or did I miss something and I make myself a fool here? Does any other community software or forum do this? Is this covered in their User Agreement?

  • bonn2
    11·
    3 hours ago

    Not wn expert in it, but this isn’t necessarily AI, it could be good ol’ image text recognition that has existed for years now.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Given the recent cooporation with Google and that Google has excellent image text recognition, isn’t this a safe bet? Otherwise Reddit would have this done without AI for years.