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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?"

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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

SEO and content farming (which google profited from

How exactly?

inb4 "google it" :D

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

The purpose of content farming is to sell ads, google gets a cut, lion's share most likely.

this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023

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