Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social
Right now if you search for “country in Africa that starts with the letter K”:
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DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
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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?”
Works perfectly fine for me
I searched “Countries in africa that start with the letter K” and got:
But if I search for “African countries that start with the letter K”, I get:
It seems to be very specific, but I think that makes it worse.
Edit: I tried the same two, but in Swedish and both yielded a list:
Kamerun.
Kap Verde.
Kenya.
Komorerna.
Kongo-Brazzaville (Republiken Kongo)
Kongo-Kinshasa (Demokratiska republiken Kongo)
I’m getting this right now.