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Reddit Almost Disappears from ChatGPT as Search Citations Drop 86%
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1350973/reddit-almost-disappears-from-chatgpt-as-search-citations-drop-86
promptwatch.com/data/reddit-citations-are-dropping-in-chatgptWhile I’m not a fan of scrapping you would think reddit would want this to push traffic to the site. Get a good answer and follow the referral link and you have a new monkey.
Are there any statistics on how many LLM chatbot users actually click on the source links?
I mean just about every metric I’ve seen suggests most websites that see an increase in scraping see a decrease in actual human visitors. I doubt there’s much distinction between chat and search users - the goal of these services is to drop click-through rates.
Oh, definitely. They are reinventing the old portals concept. That’s why I don’t think Reddit actually wants to encourage the scraping (partly also because they sell data themselves to build LLM, but that’s another thing)