Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social
Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:
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DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
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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 gave me a list of countries as the top hit. Bing did the same. Whoever wrote this article has an agenda.
I just tried it and I got the same result as the guy OP linked to. Google cited this website as the source:
https://www.emergentmind.com/posts/did-you-know-that-there-is-no-country-in-africa-that
I was able to duplicate the OP results just now. People not getting the promised results are probably on different Google instances.
I have seen both, on my phone I get the same chatgpt transcript that the toot gets
It’s toot. With screenshots. And everyone surely knows by now that your search results are dependent on your search history. And, of course, LLM output is stochastic, not deterministic. It lies at random.