Post AYmsdbyRBu79tHaqtE by wuffish@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AYlSUugFTkzvKsJkHY by rodhilton@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:30:39Z
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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?"Google Search is over.
(DIR) Post #AYlYvTy3VJ5M1zhOHg by markusl@fosstodon.org
2023-08-15T20:10:26Z
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@rodhilton Companies are so busy racing each other to include "AI" in their products that they haven't noticed it doesn't actually work.Search engines are now life-critical infrastructure. "Move fast and break things" is grossly irresponsible.
(DIR) Post #AYlZDfM7twz2Z0d1lo by Johncdvorak@noagendasocial.com
2023-08-15T20:38:34Z
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@rodhilton I just tried this now and got the same wrong results by Google. Wow. Here is my screen capture:
(DIR) Post #AYmnL0qtyBo3mENfA8 by noondlyt@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:37:11Z
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@rodhilton I honestly want to punch ChatGPT
(DIR) Post #AYmncQY7gKVCOjtupk by bloodywing@eggplant.social
2023-08-15T21:29:31Z
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@rodhilton for completion :D https://search.brave.com/search?q=countries++in+africa+starting+with+the+letter+k different AI, different source, same shit :D
(DIR) Post #AYmnoH2IsSm2MtfNmS by BanjoPartisan@poa.st
2023-08-16T10:58:27.157658Z
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@bloodywing @rodhilton lol. Brave also thinks every country with a K is in Africa.
(DIR) Post #AYmp0uBrEGhNEQiqYq by ned@noagendasocial.com
2023-08-16T11:11:58Z
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@rodhilton "But is actually spelled with a "K" sound". I thought we used letters to spell rather then sounds. oh well my bad.
(DIR) Post #AYmpbslDVWqhVotRsu by teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work
2023-08-16T11:14:17Z
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@ned @rodhilton Just shows how crappy ChatGPT is. :02_shrug: Just a bit fancier and more expensive than a markov chain generator. :02_shrug:
(DIR) Post #AYmsdbyRBu79tHaqtE by wuffish@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T18:03:44Z
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@rodhilton This is the snippet that I get, but the first link below that, and the "people also ask" section is the wildly incorrect AI-generated one.
(DIR) Post #AYmsf87v8HYLtukkim by Caryjm@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:49:53Z
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@rodhilton Not that this contradicts the main point (that Google Search is over, which I agree with) but this same query in Google for me provides the correct result. Incredibly low bar but it does come back correct.
(DIR) Post #AYmsf8z5wa5UYpdDbU by rodhilton@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T17:51:16Z
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@Caryjm the fact that Google was doing this went viral on a lot of socials and I believe there was a frontpage HN post about it as well, so Google has patched the query to fix this. It's working for me now as well.
(DIR) Post #AYmvr1w8Gyk82Xbaqm by Groomschild@poa.st
2023-08-16T12:28:37.183371Z
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@teknomunk It was good when it started. It just went rampant in less than a year
(DIR) Post #AYnFzDH7zwXSbdba5I by MrClon@lor.sh
2023-08-16T16:14:11Z
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@rodhilton maybe logic there is that Kenya is actually «Republic of Kenya» (or «Jamhuri ya Kenya»)
(DIR) Post #AYneE1f9qw7XpnRPKi by heluecht@pirati.ca
2023-08-16T20:45:16Z
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Well, the German answer is correct:
(DIR) Post #AYo2DrcrZHFBbZp6i8 by vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-08-17T01:14:40Z
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@rodhiltonGoogle search still allows you to put a word or phrase in quotes, and only return searches containing it. It is the only reason I drop The Duck for the occasional search, but an important one. @marthawells
(DIR) Post #AYoDqxbGOAfwvIv7FA by paul@oldfriends.live
2023-08-15T23:37:27Z
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@noondlyt @rodhilton I believed him, but this is the internet so I checked for myself.Oh my goodness. 💯 Real.
(DIR) Post #AYoDqyGNvHZKyq9xL6 by KesselRunTwelve@social.vivaldi.net
2023-08-16T01:11:27Z
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@paul @noondlyt @rodhilton I'm getting a different result.
(DIR) Post #AYoDqz40wlGfSlNahE by paul@oldfriends.live
2023-08-16T01:22:20Z
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@KesselRunTwelve @noondlyt @rodhilton Still first result in my search. I screen grabbed over your image.Your response was the first response in the first drop-down, though.Maybe they are adjusting it or you have a search setting different, etc.
(DIR) Post #AYoDqzlcKe97dzmPey by paul@oldfriends.live
2023-08-16T05:38:34Z
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@KesselRunTwelve @noondlyt @rodhilton 2/ Follow-up. 4-hours later and the main card now is correct but the first result it the old main card's result that says there isn't one.
(DIR) Post #AYoDr0cRAGOgHoUazQ by jppelt@fosstodon.org
2023-08-17T03:19:31Z
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@paul @KesselRunTwelve @noondlyt @rodhilton just searched and this is what I got - no such country. Crazy! Have not been on Google in years really…and now I know I am missing nothing. :ablobcatcoffee:
(DIR) Post #AYoKrGIVZUE2akEqum by admin@asciifortrouble.com
2023-08-17T04:43:29Z
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@rodhilton it's true!