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?”
I believe you. Maybe it depends on browser, whether you are logged in, things like that?
This is the first result at the top spelled out succinctly:
Next link was worldometer with Kenya pulled up first.
Is this what you saw?
Human:
Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with the letter “k”?
ChatGPT:
Yes, that’s correct! While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.
That was in the third or fourth link down. Sort of makes sense if it is trending or whatever.
Oh yeah, the chatGPT text you posted is word-for-word identical to the google result. Could be any number of factors affecting the pagerank I guess.