But people search reddit because its the last place on the internet not infested by AI slop, this is awful news.
It actually goes back to Google's algorithmic updates favouring ads, and low-quality content from high authority sites, whilst purging a lot of question/answer-based content like Quora and StackOverflow. Users noticed and reacted accordingly.
I think Reddit are just trying to mush together two trends when they don't need to. Search users noticed that they got better Google results by using a parameter and limiting to Reddit. Reddit should take that win and at best run with it for a Google-like search landing page, sure. The AI stuff is at best buzzwords and hype for investors.