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?”

  • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
    152·
    1 year ago

    Same. On my account and when logged out the first result is about Kenya. This is happening because of personalized search.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      That’s not much of an excuse, if it’s meant to be one. Google “personalised” the results by making them worse?

    • raptir@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I get Kenya even if I am in an private window and not logged in.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is happening because of personalized search.

      Doubtful, I opened up a privacy tab and typed this and received it as the first, non-paraphrased result.

      The paraphrased result was correct, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is doing onesy, twosy patches when notable examples of it being completely full of AI bullshit arise.