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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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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?"

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[–] Hyperion 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Post truth. From the big G. How times have changed.

Also, tested Bard a few times and current AI is close to useless: I have to check everything it outputs. Might as well get an intern

[–] Otkaz 11 points 1 year ago

"I have to check everything it outputs."

You should be doing that anyway.

[–] SCB 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

post truth

This mastodon post is not true lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like everyone is getting different results, some get what the post claims while others are getting the actual answer.

[–] SCB 1 points 1 year ago

Which makes the post false on its own merits.