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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?”

  • @T156
    English
    4•10 months ago

    Nobody is going to point an LLM at a good data source because that would mean spending money on actually useful stuff not fast cars and booze.

    It would also mean that you need to sort through that data, and most people don’t have the time or money to bother, not when it might reduce their data pool.