In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft's search engine, Bing, recently made a perplexing mistake by informing some users that the country of Australia does not exist. This unusual response by Bing was about a long-standing conspiracy theory that has circulated online since 2017, originating from the Flat Earth Society forum.
I’ll actually use Bing’s AI/LLM on occasion. I get frustrated in some of the conversations that come talk about the limitations of AI in generating false information that can be tracked when Bing’s does cite it’s sources if you want to fact check.
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This has been my weekly reminder that there are people who use Bing. Harrowing.
It’s DDGs primary search engine
DDG doesn’t use its chatbot though, which also still is blocking all VPN traffic.
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I’ll actually use Bing’s AI/LLM on occasion. I get frustrated in some of the conversations that come talk about the limitations of AI in generating false information that can be tracked when Bing’s does cite it’s sources if you want to fact check.
Modern Bing is a lot more useful for me than modern Google.