As more AI companies gobble up Reddit’s data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own. The feature, called Reddit Answers, allows visitors to ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads across the platform, the company announced on Monday. The feature allows Reddit to better compete against AI providers like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity, which have become popular destinations for users looking to get quick and concise answers to questions. And it could help Reddit challenge Google more directly, where so many users add the keyword “reddit” to their search queries that Google ended up integrating that functionality into its search engine. Reddit Answers introduces a conversational experience on its platform designed to help people find exactly what they’re looking for directly on Reddit without having to peruse through different individual threads and communities.

Full story : Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English.