Rod HiltonAug 15, 2023

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?"

Google Search is over.

Show threadCaryJMAug 15, 2023
@rodhilton Not that this contradicts the main point (that Google Search is over, which I agree with) but this same query in Google for me provides the correct result. Incredibly low bar but it does come back correct.
Show threadClickyMcTicker
@Caryjm @rodhilton Did you type “country in Africa that starts with the letter k” or “country in Africa that starts with k”? The former produces the result seen above, and the latter produces the result you received (albeit that same result is the second on the list behind the correct answer)
Aug 15, 2023 at 9:34pmWeb