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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JoBo 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?"

Google Search is over.

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[–] artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

i use ddg and kagi for search

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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.