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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[-] radix@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

I didn't think it would work, because surely they'd patched it by now, but:

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.

[-] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I got the same!

I've been using ecosia instead of Google for a while and I like it.

Edit: ecosia gives you the alphabetical list

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Ecosia and ddg are bing frontends, you'll get the same results

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