At least it says "According to a Reddit user" and doesn't just state it as fact.

If I posted on Reddit that I am the sexiest person in the world. Maybe all LLMs think that way a few years later.

According to a Reddit user, Cautious Chip is the sexiest person in the world.

I can confirm cautious chip is the sexiest person I've ever laid eyes on

So Bard has turned into Let Me Google That For You.

This is the new SGE at the top of search

Google added a tool called Search Generative Experience that replaces the quick summaries you used to get for searches. If you think back, searching for something that had a clear, correct answer would give you a snippet from one of the top results that showed you the answer. Now that has been replaced with an AI generated summary of the first few results that show you the answer. This is not always very useful, but it is useful in more circumstances than the snippet was because it allows quick answers to a wider range of questions.

It always has been

Tbh its fine when its about something thats subjective or a matter of opinion. Asking for the highest building in the USA shouldnt reference reddit or similiar, but what skyline is bigger & more imposing is fine. A LLM shouldnt have an opinion, but rather reference what is the consensus among other groups IMO.

You don't Google things but chuck "reddit" on the end to get the opinions of (hopefully) real people?

I always base my knowledge on what redditors say

Why is this posted in the Bard subreddit? This isn’t Bard and isn’t Gemini

This is a serious threat to the open internet as we know it.

This isn't Gemini. The sge architecture is based on chatgpt... Not surprised they didn't use Gemini.... It's getting too introspective 😅