hedge to [email protected]English • 11 months agoSomething weird going on at DuckDuck…beehaw.orgimagemessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up194arrow-down1imageSomething weird going on at DuckDuck…beehaw.orghedge to [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish45•edit-211 months agoSeems like a poorly trained ML model - crudely speaking, perhaps its training set was tilted towards descriptions of conservative news sites so it learned to insert the word “conservative” when describing a news site.
minus-squaretuckermlinkfedilink31•11 months agoI don’t want to jump to conclusions, but that does sound like a very possible explanation. Poo. I was hoping DDG would keep LLM-generated summaries out of their UI.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•11 months agoMy guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.
Seems like a poorly trained ML model - crudely speaking, perhaps its training set was tilted towards descriptions of conservative news sites so it learned to insert the word “conservative” when describing a news site.
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but that does sound like a very possible explanation.
Poo. I was hoping DDG would keep LLM-generated summaries out of their UI.
My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.