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?”

  • Clent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Constantly forgetting I changed all my default search engines to DuckDuckGo.

    Went to Google to test this…what a trash website.

    Pushed me to download the app.

    Pops up a recommendation to download Chrome.

    Has clutter on the default search search form.

    Looks more like yahoo than the google of yore

    • raptir@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      What are you browsing in? I use Firefox and never get any of those popups when I use Google.

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        1 year ago

        This is the mobile experience, which makes it all the worse.

        It’s popping banners like a shit news site.

        • raptir@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I’m using Firefox on Android and am not seeing anything like you’re mentioning.