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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Via @[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Works fine for me

Kenya. Kenya is a country located in East Africa. It shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't even know what to say here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it is not Artificial Intelligence. It is Average Intelligence. And they want it everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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