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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?”
Chatgpt creating incorrect feedback loops like this is one of my main concerns about AI being used so prevalently. This and original thoughts disappearing because every new content in the web is generated by AI and not by a human.
Tool built by narcissist gaslighters is good for bullshit but nothing else? Colour me shocked.
I thought about this recently. It’s more likely that people will subscribe to sites that aren’t full of AI garbage.
to be fair the latter thing would actually increase the value of original thought
Original thoughts aren’t exactly a mainstay of people either despite how often that gets romanticized in AI criticisms