Via @[email protected]

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?”

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    I typed in “what countries in Africa start with k” and got Kenya. When I tried your search term I got your result also. Weird.

    • Jojo
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      51 year ago

      It kinda seems like that’s a joke that got popular, and if you quote the joke it finds the joke but if you ask a similar question it gives the real answer

      Did it go viral or something and that’s why google is finding it?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, kinda like reddit used to do sometimes. From over a decade ago I remember “santorum”.