▲ 1259 ▼ Google search is over (mastodon.social) submitted 2 years ago* by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world 245 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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?"
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago I saw it, it's marked as a "featured snippet", whatever that means.... permalink fedilink source