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.
Elon is such a liar.
1. Rate limits aren’t how you address scraping. Can easily be done with firewalls.
2. He is intentionally breaking the service.
3. No, it’s not because he didn’t pay a bill; but failing to pay bills is also an intentional, strategic choice.
People need to accept the fact that he is conducting a controlled demolition. The appropriate question then is “why?”
The answer is: to warp the information space.