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.
This is so ridiculously petty if true.
#MastodonNews April 15, 2023
@mmasnick on how Elon Musk continues to use his Twitter ban hammer to extort censorship...
techdirt: Twitter Suspends User For Sharing Washington Post Story About Pentagon Docs Leaker >>> https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/twitter-suspends-user-for-sharing-washington-post-story-about-pentagon-docs-leaker/
Professor Kathy Gill... attempted to share that story on Twitter... She received a message saying “Tweet not sent”... she “appealed” to Twitter, noting that it was just a link to the story... [and] her account was suspended permanently.
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Ha. Clicking on any link on bird site gives me this:
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