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lmao true, already seen a few companies gunning for the YouTube for AI generated videos mantel so we'll see how it goes

A couple of ways from my understanding. We have different focuses in our UX and UI as we, for example, feature reviews directly next to the product and show products 1 at a time instead of a listing view. We also place more emphasis on having a semantic search where you learn about the products being offered and how they're relevant to your specific situation instead of a keyword based search. From a business standpoint, we're also affiliates of Amazon and Stylevana while Looria isn't.

That's crazy, going to be really interesting once this ramps up/if it starts getting good traffic.

Interesting, haven't seen one of those yet. With public video+audio models getting much better that will only get way worse over time. Excited to see what YT/Google decides to do about it.

Fair. The best solution we've seen is building the product in some way where it's somewhat defensible, either through data, features that bigger players won't build, etc. and then using a subscription based model if users are willing to pay for that and value the searches high enough or using an ads based model if you're optimizing for traffic rather than pure value on each search.

Great question. This would be a bigger issue if we were only aggregating results and summarizing them, but because we both aggregate and show (in our opinion) the highest credibility reviews from YouTubers (and other sources like blogs once we add them), our idea is that while the general mass opinion can be shifted through campaigns like that, the top end of the spectrum should hopefully still remain pure.

If on the other hand the top end of the spectrum is corrupted, then hopefully the masses can compensate for that. If both are corrupted and all of the data sources available are, then it really comes down to our ability to filter out LLM or promoted content which comes down to how well they can hide it. AI detection tools have been scaling alongside models, so it's also a question if that will continue over time. We'll think of some more advanced things if that becomes a bigger issue for us :)

At the end of the day, if a company can do a coordinated advertising campaign across the internet over months to block out any negative opinion, it's a big deal for both us and the social media/data sources we pull from that's going to be a challenge we have to deal with.

The top comment on that clip scores home that point. While there's no way to verify that, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a lot more than we realize. That being said and to play devils advocate - if all of them are already astroturfed with some people discovering that, then how much do most people care about it?

Great points, not sure those are fixable either. It definitely has some advantages from those same things in some respects, but monetizing reddit outside of ads (i.e. ecommerce like tiktok/instagram) because of these things is going to be a challenge for sure.

Sorry that happened :( What were you searching for? We'll look into it.

Thanks! We just watched your review together in the living room, and we really appreciate your thoughts+detailed feedback. The list of items is an interesting idea that we'll think about how to fit into the ux. Comparisons is definitely something we want to add later down the line as well.

The idea of restaurants, like you mentioned, would be really great to have. It's not an immediate priority, but once we get Tiktok/short form videos on the site and integrate it well, it'd be really exciting to make and use.

That's what I've heard as well. Also, the lag to when you actually get paid is super painful.

Also curious - how do you think about affiliates as someone who runs an ecommerce site? Are there any reservations about whether services like us take search traffic or ads revenue?

For sure! We'll work on that in the next couple of updates, it's been on our minds for a while.

Great point. While reddit may be astroturfed, all it takes is one good comment.

we'll do our best :)

would love to say that it was a gift from sama, but he hasn't blessed us :(