Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist
3 years ago by Lee Duna to c/technology
You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.
But its glued to the bottom. So you would just fall off.
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.
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
Is there any equivalent of that ol' Reddit-aroo?
I was "thinking" of NZ ;) Not sure about Finland but also, yes \s
Who cares about kangaroo land?
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.
Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You're being scammed my friend haha
Kagi also believes Australia is not real
Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia
I cropped it out
Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it
Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon
Now that's what I like to see!
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.
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.
I got super tired of google a few months ago. "Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu."
So I started using bing instead, I wouldn't say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.
Quite annoying how they keep pushing for "AI" all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.
Huh. I had no idea! And I use DDG... But I feel like all search engines are shit these days. 50% of the hits are autogenerated translations with AI creating false .[country] domain (I'm in Denmark) which are just advertisements. I miss the old days of search engines. Fuck, even Alta Vista gave more right answers back in the Netscape days!
Just so you know - it's nowhere near as good as the "real" gpt-4. Maybe try paying for a month and see how it compares.
I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those "what am I doing anyway" moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.
It's video search is good for porn lmao.
...Guess I'm from Queensland, New York now.
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☠️
All LLM replies are hallucinations
Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating "The Great Polish Sea".
It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.
I’m not sure. It doesn’t exist. Perhaps I’m sleeping.
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
Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.
#AustraliaIsntReal
Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It's finally all coming out...
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.
Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real
BobLoblaw blahblahblah
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.
Whats the one that "ackshually" doesn't exist? Its like some running gag or something
NZ
Yessss
That's just what japan wants you to think
There's also the city of Bielefeld, which may or may not exist. I mean, I've never seen it.
America, it was just a practical joke.
Ees joke?!
[blood seeping from hands] I must not get in fights I must not get in fights
ur mom
Yes, ur mom 👈 CONTinue 😹
We don’t
Who caaaaaares, why is this news 😭? It's been said over and over that these networks aren't reliable and can make mistakes, so what, it will be fixed in a month or so? Is not like these systems are deployed in critical situations or anything
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You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!
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