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Post by mojomark »

Feel free to downvote, but this is the most idiotic and pointless thing I've read all week. I want my 10 seconds (now 20) back.

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Post by Crunchified »

"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."

You have got to be kidding me.

Really? Spelled with a "K" sound? This crap could've come from straight out of my Facebook feed!

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Post by buitreVirtual »

Crunchified wrote: post #3

"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." You have got to be kidding me. Really? Spelled with a "K" sound? This crap could've come from straight out of my Facebook feed!

Click on the top link to understand what's going on. The point is that ChatGPT purportedly generated that nonsensical answer to a human prompt and Google somehow picked it up as the top search result for that query.

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Post by mouse_ »

mojomark wrote: post #2

Feel free to downvote, but this is the most idiotic and pointless thing I've read all week. I want my 10 seconds (now 20) back.

Failure to understand a post does not give you a pass to be rude.

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Post by sentientslug »

mojomark wrote: post #2

Feel free to downvote, but this is the most idiotic and pointless thing I've read all week. I want my 10 seconds (now 20) back.

Weird that you spent more of your apparently precious time making this comment instead of just scrolling down.

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Post by pipeline_peak »

I recommend rewriting the title to something more self explanatory.

I don’t understand how you guys expect viewers to dig that far into it to figure out it’s ChatGPT related.

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Post by pipeline_peak »

mouse_ wrote: post #5
mojomark wrote: post #2

Feel free to downvote, but this is the most idiotic and pointless thing I've read all week. I want my 10 seconds (now 20) back.

Failure to understand a post does not give you a pass to be rude.

Tbf it’s pretty hidden, it’s ridiculous to expect him to dig into a news posts in his leisure like he’s studying for an exam.
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