Post

Did you note that Bing had a reference? Click its reference. It's an old joke. They took the old joke at face value (LLMs can't "see" letters, they have to learn spellings for every token on their own).

Perplexity is no better.

Seems like the software who runs google is broken, i mean, look at that! Ofc Africa has a country that start with "K"

A lil' epistemic collapse every now and then helps keep things fresh.

WtF?! Don't use google because of privacy.

Always?

Suddenly I am less afraid of Skynet.

More active chicanery to dodge before I find anything resembling a real answer. This is why people are so confused all the time always. Blatant lies from what once was a useful tool is not progress.

Kome on.

Wow, I thought this might be an evanescent thing but I just did the same search here in Europe & got the exact same snippet.

How have they not fixed this yet? So egregious

It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.

It’s going to get worse. If AI learns from what’s on the internet and this sort of mistake is what it’s learning from, the errors are just going to loop and compound themselves.

my brain hurts now 😭

They take "begging the question" to a whole new level.

🤣

It's a joke that was being shared around Reddit a bunch in 2021. www.google.is/search?q=afr... ChatGPT probably just "learned" it from there. It has no way to "double check", because LLMs don't "see" letters - they "see" tokens. Every spelling task they must custom-learn.

stockholm syndrome isn't real except for weird nerds

The initial fault is with ChatGPT that spewed this nonsense. Then an aggregation page sucked it up and published. Then Google just took that at face value and used as their default answer. So all three are completely brainless, unsupervised and repeating dumb shit they heard from a bloke at a pub.

Lolz!

not to get to philosophical but to make an algorithm that can determine ‘truth’ first we would have to define truth

AI brainrot caused by human brainrot. This was a common joke in 2021. www.google.is/search?q=afr...

The whole thing is so you don't leave Google when looking for information, and they can do this because they have a monopoly, and most people don't know other search engines exist. Funnily enough there's an anti-trust lawsuit going on right now, and most people haven't heard about it either.

I can hear her voice

Wtaf

I just checked by googling and yes.... apparently there are no African countries that start with 'K' ...Even the ones that start with "K"

That's one stupid site that has this and Google has indexed it badly 🤷‍♂️

this erratic and idiotic behavior doesn’t mean that Ai can’t take over control of the world…unfortunately

Kenya suck on dee nuts?

Not much worse than Bing telling you it's ok to boil a baby, or the best places to hide a body.

Yes, my whole point is that it's a bad product. They had a great product: search that worked well. But they stuffed it with shit that doesn't work. This is 100% Google's fault and they don't care because it makes them more money when people can't find shit on their website and stick around longer.

They used to be better about that by being better about recognizing quality sources, so they wouldn't pull the answer from a bad article like that

Agreed. I'm just saying I'm not sure the fault here is Google's AI Bard. It was a ChatGPT prompt that is being searched out for gotchas.

Confirmed. Hahahahaha. Get fucked, Google

To be fair the AI itself is likely a simple case of "garbage in, garbage out" (I mean in this specific case, I am aware AI often spits out garbage even if you don't put any it, but in this one case it is a "garbage in, garbage out" situation), but that's no excuse for Google grabbing it of course.

🎉Google is even worse broken! 🎉

It's garbage all the way down

😂😂😂

Good god fuck ai and all the companies using it

.... HUH?

I think someone could have great success marketing a search engine that tries to filter out AI generated garbage. The amount of absolute garbage information on the Internet is going to sky rocket now that regular people have such easy access to LLMs.

Same thing from GERMANY. Checked two days ago. If you ask in german you'll get a correct answer. seems like it was a blessing that ChatGPT was only available in english at first.

The future is so bright we’re all gonna need shades

Cenya

I googled if pickle juice could help with cramps today, and the top results were suspicious: I didn't recognize the sites, and they didn't seem like reliable sources, either. It's nothing but a poisoned well now.

AI’s greatest power is to poop back and forth, forever, in a public forum

Perhaps they were thinking of Quenya 😜

Gracious.

I need to switch to duckduckgo so bad

I discovered this amazing AI fact about flatulence… I’m most impressed with the specificity that 605 farts are deadly ☠️ (unsure if it’s cumulative 😬)

I’m.

Oh, Lordy...

thought (hoped) this was a bit - NOPE

I googled something health-related and the first quote result came from suredeoderant.co.uk Enshittified does not even begin to cover this

AI's ability to come up with absolute bullshit to appease a person asking a loaded question really is frightening

Meanwhile Google's SEO algorithm constantly downgrades websites with good, human-written content for sites that have jumped through their hoops.

Ah, yes. The K is silent like in chic”k”en. Kenya is pronounced Enya and makes modern Celtic music.

kenya suck on this fat dick I’m sorry, that was rude

LLMs don't "see" letters - they see tokens. It's like asking a blind person about colours.

It's so fucking funny that 15 years of middle-school level clickbait bullshit clogging the arteries of the internet has fed into this to generate not only results that are this wrong, but results that sound so fucking dumb just in framing.

brain explodes.

Fun stuff news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714...

Yep. That's what I got just now, for the 1st 2 hits.

The closest is Kenya which does start with a K but doesn’t start with a K

Doin the lords work

pathetic stuff from what's become a really awful company

The things they do to save a buck

😲😂

Droves of these are showing up as replies to posts on the site formerly known as twitter. They definitely have a distinctive “voice “ and not one I enjoy hearing.

I couldn’t believe it but… tried it and that’s real. Wtf?!

Tryin' my best do do things differently around here ;)

you really aren't made for this earth, dawg: being all earnest and shit where it doesn't apply because you can't tell what's humor is a really fucking bizarre way to insist you're smart.

I didn't say you're a liar, I'm saying that screen has been around for some time, and it didn't happen for me when I tried it. Maybe we're in different AI rollout experiments or something? Anyway, the error shows one of the many reasons current models aren't as "intelligent" as some worry/hype.

I didn’t even apply the highlighting, that’s in the answer

anyway i guess it all reveals that AI chatbots don't actually know what letters are or what words mean, they just generally know which order they go in. is Janelle Shane on this site yet? 🤔

Confirmed!

Tried to Google how to fix my smoke alarm and almost believed the articles that came up until one said to wash it in detergent. Time to switch to ddg

Need to choose a differ search engine??

This is a brilliant blooper, I have to say😂

I had to test this. And, yup. 😑

Didn't take long to figure out that the featured result and several other results just lifted that text from an AI generated post on reddit. AI posts on reddit are poisoning google search and google is failing to stop it. Failing badly. This has been going on for at least a couple years

The really hilarious bit is that just below that text it shows the source for that … a site called “Emergent Mind” and the specific page is a ChatGPT transcript saying the same thing. So Bard is learning ChatGPT’s idiocy…

I get a different result when I did this search on mobile but the 4th result is the Emergent Mind link with this ChatGPT response in it. Wild times to be alive.

Its literally a copied conversation with ChatGPT that's being quoted there. I just used the 'feedback' function to report the 'snippet' to google for incorrect information.

That's chatgpt v3.5, v4 is way better.

Looking into this