Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 2 images Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K": - DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya. - Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same. This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke: "There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?" Google Search is over.

Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:

  • DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

  • Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

“There are no countries in Africa that start with K.” “What about Kenya?” “Kenya suck deez nuts?”

  • infyrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Google has been shit for years, news at 6.

    Google can’t even fucking tell me sometimes, out of curiosity, what a skillet is. Know what it does? Brings up the band named Skillet, instead. The first handful of results you get, is the band before you ever get to the pan itself. I feel that Google should require a level of separation to not mix the two, but I guess that’d be too hard.

    Google is just good at fetching results, but not accurate ones.