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Isho'ye

@rodhilton This is the snippet that I get, but the first link below that, and the "people also ask" section is the wildly incorrect AI-generated one.

Google Search: country in Africa that starts with the letter K About 363,000,000 results (0.42 seconds) Kenya is located on the eastern coast of Africa and borders Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the north, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the southwest, and Somalia again on the southern border.
15 Aug 2023 at 18:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Rod Hilton

@wuffish yeah they fixed it after news of this search went viral

15 Aug 2023 at 18:05 | Open on mastodon.social
kaup
Elin
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@elin @kaup @rodhilton @wuffish Just tried it.

The following queries (in separate Firefox container tabs) still give the ChatGPT garbage:

"what is a country in africa that starts with k"
"countries in africa that start with k"

Screen shot of a variant of a viral Google query which has been fixed in some versions, but not the one shown here: "what is a country in africa that starts with k". For this specific query, it gives ChatGPT-sourced garbage: "While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this."
15 Aug 2023 at 20:26 | Open on mastodon.online
jonny (good kind)

@wuffish
@rodhilton
that snippet is also incorrect LLM garbage lmao.

16 Aug 2023 at 1:53 | Open on neuromatch.social
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