ChatGPT is citing Reddit far less: reddit.com's share of ChatGPT Search citations collapsed from about 4% to about 0.5% on August 14, 2026. Daily data for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode from July 7 to August 17.
Great question, I wish I knew. I know when I’m on a deep dive I will hit the links as there is other information or other articles the scrapped site has.
I mean just about every metric I’ve seen suggests most websites that see an increase in scraping see a decrease in actual human visitors. I doubt there’s much distinction between chat and search users - the goal of these services is to drop click-through rates.
Oh, definitely. They are reinventing the old portals concept. That’s why I don’t think Reddit actually wants to encourage the scraping (partly also because they sell data themselves to build LLM, but that’s another thing)
I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.
You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.
I do for things where I want to be accurate, but sometimes it seems like I’m the only one
On the other hand I advised my teen to buy the wrong battery because I didn’t click into the results for “what battery do i need to replace in my Subaru key?”
Are there any statistics on how many LLM chatbot users actually click on the source links?
Great question, I wish I knew. I know when I’m on a deep dive I will hit the links as there is other information or other articles the scrapped site has.
I mean just about every metric I’ve seen suggests most websites that see an increase in scraping see a decrease in actual human visitors. I doubt there’s much distinction between chat and search users - the goal of these services is to drop click-through rates.
Oh, definitely. They are reinventing the old portals concept. That’s why I don’t think Reddit actually wants to encourage the scraping (partly also because they sell data themselves to build LLM, but that’s another thing)
I don’t know how many do, but they’re fools if they don’t.
You’d think that since those links are there, that the information on those links matches what that LLM says, and thus not a hallucination, but at least twice, I’ve found the information straight up wasn’t there, or the LLM had misread / misinterpreted the page’s content.
But then I may not be a regular user. I ask a question maybe once every one to two weeks because a regular search finds nothing and, like I say, I prefer to check the sources.
I do for things where I want to be accurate, but sometimes it seems like I’m the only one
On the other hand I advised my teen to buy the wrong battery because I didn’t click into the results for “what battery do i need to replace in my Subaru key?”