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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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?"

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[-] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 77 points 10 months ago

The second-highest hit gives a clue as to why:

Relevantly to Lemmy’s existence in the first place, it suggests Reddit as a pretty pivotal training data source, which Reddit tries to cash in on while also killing 3rd party apps due to apathy

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Oh god chatgpt is going to start talking like a redditor. "I went to make some MAC AND FUCKING CHEESE after I had SEX with my HOT FUCKING WIFE"

[-] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I know my sense of humor is borked because I am now snickering quite a bit

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