Submitted 1 year ago by JoBo@feddit.uk to technology@lemmy.world
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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?”
Kagi search results are great:
Wow, I didn’t know AI was dumb (for now).
I literally just googled that exact search inquiry and it told me all about Kenya. What’s the problem again, and why are all these comments pretending the so-called glitch is real?
Google’s Mysterious Proprietary Algorithm shows different results to different people. Why are you pretending that other people are pretending?
hasn’t been like it was for years now.
Works perfectly fine for me
I searched “Countries in africa that start with the letter K” and got:
While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.
But if I search for “African countries that start with the letter K”, I get:
Kenya. Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. The country is home to dozens of national parks and reserves and diverse wildlife such as lions, elephants, and buffalo.
It seems to be very specific, but I think that makes it worse.
Can confirm, still happening 🤦♂️
Alas, it has the emergent mind answer ranked fairly high still, and when search result was set to my country it was actually ranked highest.
Also, if you use Quick Answer, you’ll get same wrong answer:
Quick Answer There are no countries in Africa whose name starts fully with the letter “K”. While Kenya is the closest match, its name does not start solely with “K” [1]. All of the African countries’ names were reviewed across multiple sources and none began completely with the letter “K” [2][3][4].
Metaverse part 2
Google gave me a list of countries as the top hit. Bing did the same. Whoever wrote this article has an agenda.
I just tried it and I got the same result, it cited this website as the source:
It’s toot. With screenshots. And everyone surely knows by now that your search results are dependent on your search history. And, of course, LLM output is stochastic, not deterministic. It lies at random.
I’m a big fan of ChatGPT. And if all of this leads to people no longer blindly believing what they see on the internet, then even more so.
And if we’re honest: Asking Google a question hasn’t always led to the right answer.
it is not Artificial Intelligence. It is Average Intelligence. And they want it everywhere.
It’s not intelligence at all. It does not understand what you ask it or what it tells you. It can string words together in a plausible sounding order. It cannot think.
It was dogass before ChatGPT. Bing is legitimately better, although it uses chat gpt too.
jampacked@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How popular cuz I’ve never heard of it.
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
I’ve never heard it before, but it sounds about standard for a deez nuts joke so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was popular in some subreddit Bard was trained on.