Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist : technology

[–] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 125 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!

[–] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But its glued to the bottom. So you would just fall off.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself, skywalker, some of us tether ourselves everywhere we go.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

{Engage Yoda Voice]

Hmmm, Yes. Duck Tape.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 62 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 6 points 11 months ago

They were dropping bears. It was horrible.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere......

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

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[–] puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Google isn't even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

[–] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago

Bing gets you answers fast.

they didn't say they'd be the right answer tho.

[–] Zyratoxx@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At least Ecosia delivers

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Kagi also believes Australia is not real

Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I cropped it out

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon

Now that's what I like to see!

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Fuck, who's turn was it to pay off bing this month?!

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish search engines "just delivered search results". Unfortunately, they now directly and confidently answer questions with complete nonsense.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

...Guess I'm from Queensland, New York now.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.

[+] ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] jerome@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Australians wish! New Zealand tends to get things right.

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

#AustraliaIsntReal

Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It's finally all coming out...

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bing being Bing ( unintended pun )

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[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an "accidental leak"

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

It would've been better if they just kept it... I mean, the theory has everybody already

[–] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Whats the one that "ackshually" doesn't exist? Its like some running gag or something

[–] peto@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Finland.

Or New Zealand if you are a cartographer.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

NZ

Yessss

[–] Teknikal@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

My brains thinking Finland but I might be wrong.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

There's also the city of Bielefeld, which may or may not exist. I mean, I've never seen it.

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