Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

AI Mistakes appear as facts in Google Snippets

It's not a bug, it's a feature

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Henk van Ess
Nov 07, 2023
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A viral tweet became the posterboy of how #AI nonsense can fool Google. The question, "What African countries begin with the letter 'K'?" will give you a bewildering response: "None."

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