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 threadIsho'yeAug 15, 2023
@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.
Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 16, 2023
@wuffish
@rodhilton
that snippet is also incorrect LLM garbage lmao.
Show threadIsho'yeAug 16, 2023

@jonny @rodhilton and they want to make it worse. Thankfully, for now, the "feature" is experimental, and has to be explicitly enabled on your Google account.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-search-generative-experience-while-browsing/

Google's AI Search Experience wants to change the way you look at a page

Google's AI search tool wants to streamline page viewing

Android Police
Show threadjonny (good kind)
@wuffish
@rodhilton
aha didn't see this update today. for the record I freaking called it
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#the-near-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-knowledge-graphs-get-chatbots
Surveillance Graphs

Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures - A critical history of the semantic web and linked data, grappling with the next generation of surveillance capitalism, where grand corporate knowledge graphs devour the planet and sell it back to us as a glassy-eyed LLM personal assistants, will we remain stuck in the ideology of the cloud, or can we have better dreams?

Surveillance Graphs
Aug 16, 2023 at 2:45amWeb