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Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it (beehaw.org)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reddit seems to use Ai to analyze images, so the content can be indexed by the search. In example I searched for my name (which is also used for the my blog) to see if there are recent posts with "thingsiplay", because I saw some spike in the stats. But what I instead found is a screenshot of a comment from me made in YouTube. There is no text attached to the post or title, so it must have analyzed the content, right?

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=thingsiplay&amp%3Bt=week results in

and the post is

Or did I miss something and I make myself a fool here? Does any other community software or forum do this? Is this covered in their User Agreement?

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[–] TranquilTurbulence 2 points 5 days ago

It would make sense to include matching images in the search results and other engagement driven recommendations. There are quite a few screenshots too, so if the search can only handle text, it’s going to completely miss a pretty large category.