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Google search is over (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] Aelorius@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

That is why some people are building new search engines as admarust.net a full p2p search engine able to index IPFS content. https://github.com/Mubelotix/admarus

It was dogass before ChatGPT. Bing is legitimately better, although it uses chat gpt too.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because I have ad blockers on, and try to avoid AI like the plague, but my google searches are giving me actual results rather than what you're describing.

Then again, I know google gives different results based on the user.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, I didn't know AI was dumb (for now).

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Same with brave search. Da fuq is going on anymore.

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