The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?

  • tuckerm@supermeter.social
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    1 year ago

    It showed me the same thing, but after searching again a few times I’m now seeing a summary of the articles on their homepages.

    Side note: I’ve had a weird bug a few times with DDG lately, where it showed me results for current events that were completely unrelated to what I was looking for. I searched for something like “10 inch chef’s knife” but the results were as though I had typed “US house of representatives speaker.” This has happened maybe three or four times in the last two weeks.

  • DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah where are those descriptions coming from? Also mentions “the strike workers’ strike” and repeats “politics” twice

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.