Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 2 images 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.

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?”

    • UnknownQuantityEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I typed in “what countries in Africa start with k” and got Kenya. When I tried your search term I got your result also. Weird.

      • JojoEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        It kinda seems like that’s a joke that got popular, and if you quote the joke it finds the joke but if you ask a similar question it gives the real answer

        Did it go viral or something and that’s why google is finding it?

        • UnknownQuantityEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yeah, kinda like reddit used to do sometimes. From over a decade ago I remember “santorum”.

    • GreenMarioEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I’ve tried to upload a similar image so I’ll just add a +1 using Firefox, Android Google.