You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!
You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.
Um, Australia is required to exist to stop the weight of the US from flipping the Earth plane over. It’s literally the counterweight continent.
But its glued to the bottom. So you would just fall off.
Speak for yourself, skywalker, some of us tether ourselves everywhere we go.
{Engage Yoda Voice]
Hmmm, Yes. Duck Tape.
Thanks Ptetris11!
Only if your gravity harness breaks…
I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.
They were dropping bears. It was horrible.
Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…
The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere…
Emu war was on the other side of the country.
The First Emu War was. Emu War II was much more devastating.
Source: Bing
Fuck, who’s turn was it to pay off bing this month?!
whose
This isn’t time for semantics, we’ve gotta problem here!
Got a
Damnit Jerry, this is why no one invites you to BBQs!
BBWs
You also need a comma before ‘Jerry’.
Nah the BBWs love Jerry.
FFS is everyone at this company bloody grammar police! We’re in crisis mode, the ruse is up!
Search engines don’t make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.
I wish search engines “just delivered search results”. Unfortunately, they now directly and confidently answer questions with complete nonsense.
The vast majority of those answers are still just citing another source, though. The only exceptions I can think of are things like math and unit conversions.
My point is mostly that people insist on treating search engines (and now LLMs) as oracles of truth, and they did that even back when all you got was a list of links with small excerpts. It annoys me to no end when people fail so thoroughly at such a basic test of media literacy and then immediately try to place the blame on someone else.
Where the info comes from doesn’t exactly change that it’s a problem.
You can talk about media literacy, but why even have the thing exist if it can’t provide correct answers. That’s its only reason for existing.
You seem to be one of the very people I’m complaining about. The point of a search engine absolutely is not to spoon feed you correct answers. It’s to find information on the internet that’s relevant to a topic. There’s lots of wrong information on the internet and it’s not a search engine’s job to decide for you what’s right and what’s wrong.
Nobody is saying otherwise. The problem being discussed here is that search engines present themselves as “deciding what’s right and wrong” and present themselves as “spoon feeding correct answers”. If we really want to improve media literacy, we can begin by advocating for our search tools to not misrepresent the presentation of their data.
Yeah, but it’s changing. Search Engines today don’t just present you links to other websites, but have also started to take some of that information and show it to you directly. First it was by showing you little excerpts, but now with Bing Chat it’s becoming a lot more developed.
With Bing Chat, you ask your search engine a question, and it will answer you directly in a conversation-like manner. This feels a lot more like it’s not just showing you a list of sources, but it’s answering you directly, making claims, stating “facts” etc. You can easily forget it’s just a search engine, can’t fault people for this.
Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great
Bing gets you answers fast.
they didn’t say they’d be the right answer tho.
Kagi also believes Australia is not real
Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia
Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?
I cropped it out
…Guess I’m from Queensland, New York now.
Welcome to the states, friend! You picked one hell of a time to join
Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
You didn’t really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?
These things HAPPEN☠️
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Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!
Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating “The Great Polish Sea”.
Why are we relying on algorithms and AI to tell us facts now? Why dont these companies have curated information for set subjects, as this is how conspiracy crap kicks off in this day and age!?
The article isn’t even about AI. This is just default Bing search. The AI actually does know about Australia.
It’s rather like a wild back how Google search said that there were no French military victories in history. It’s just bad data collection, nothing to do with AI
Previous articles linked on here before said the top search engine result was chatgpt.
My comment still stands. There is an algorithm being used to give you the search engine result. What we need is a human curator for this sort of stuff. Not data analysis.
Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.
This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with “K” before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.
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Wow that is really obnoxious.
Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an “accidental leak”
Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.
Australians wish! New Zealand tends to get things right.
Well… they used to at least :(
Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real
I mean have you heard an Australian accent? It’s like “this is totally a legit accent, we’re speaking English, mate, jabbamawong!” half of it isn’t even words they just make it up as they go like they’re not being sarcastic.
Never bought it.
