Technology / 10 weeks ago

AI models lean on Reddit: The internet’s ultimate knowledge base

AI systems rely heavily on a select group of websites for information. Reddit leads by a wide margin, accounting for about 40% of domain citations, followed by Wikipedia (26%), YouTube (24%), Google (23%), Yelp (21%), Facebook (20%), Amazon (19%), Tripadvisor (12%), Instagram (11%), and Quora (5%). This dominance of specific platforms highlights how large language models (LLMs) base their answers on a concentrated slice of the web.