Reddit threads can be incredibly long, and sometimes it’s challenging to figure out what they’re really about, regardless of the title. Even searching for keywords can be hit or miss. The platform wants to help solve that issue and later this year plans to release a new AI-powered feature that will generate summaries at the top of search results.
The idea is straightforward: AI fueled by large language models is good at condensing and summarizing big chunks of text, like those filling Reddit threads. By making these summaries part of Reddit’s search system, users can more quickly find the content they’re looking for at the time. There are millions of posts and comments added to Reddit every day, and parsing them for the content you’re actually interested in would be a lot easier with an AI assistant to distill everything into concise explanations.
