I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.
They were dropping bears. It was horrible.
Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…
The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere…
Emu war was on the other side of the country.
The First Emu War was. Emu War II was much more devastating.
Source: Bing
Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time
New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).
Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)
Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance
I award you 1 internet.
Is there any equivalent of that ol’ Reddit-aroo?
They’re well aware. Famous Australians like Russell Crowe and Phar Lap would back up this claim.
What the hell is a phar lap. Like you run a lap but far?
Who cares about kangaroo land?
I was “thinking” of NZ ;) Not sure about Finland but also, yes \s
Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great
Bing gets you answers fast.
they didn’t say they’d be the right answer tho.
At least Ecosia delivers
Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You’re being scammed my friend haha
What kinda scam do you mean. I’m using it since 2017 or so and never heard of it.
(Please don’t recommend me DuckDuckGo - I’d rather use Startpage or Qwant for personal reasons)
Kagi also believes Australia is not real
Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia
Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?
I cropped it out
Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon
Now that’s what I like to see!
Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it
…Guess I’m from Queensland, New York now.
Welcome to the states, friend! You picked one hell of a time to join
Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
You didn’t really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?
These things HAPPEN☠️
Guess the emu wars had a sequel.
Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!
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.
Yeah, but it’s changing. Search Engines today don’t just present you links to other websites, but have also started to take some of that information and show it to you directly. First it was by showing you little excerpts, but now with Bing Chat it’s becoming a lot more developed.
With Bing Chat, you ask your search engine a question, and it will answer you directly in a conversation-like manner. This feels a lot more like it’s not just showing you a list of sources, but it’s answering you directly, making claims, stating “facts” etc. You can easily forget it’s just a search engine, can’t fault people for this.
does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?..
I use it for free access to gpt-4 and dalle-3. Can’t say I use it as a browser though.
Just so you know - it’s nowhere near as good as the “real” gpt-4. Maybe try paying for a month and see how it compares.
Everybody who uses DDG is mostly using Bing. Albeit more privately.
Huh. I had no idea! And I use DDG… But I feel like all search engines are shit these days. 50% of the hits are autogenerated translations with AI creating false .[country] domain (I’m in Denmark) which are just advertisements. I miss the old days of search engines. Fuck, even Alta Vista gave more right answers back in the Netscape days!
I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those “what am I doing anyway” moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.
Bing is so much better than anything else for image search in my experience. Anything else, lol.
It’s video search is good for porn lmao.
you can search anonynous in bing, that’s why Ecosia and DDG use it backend
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Yep, Bing is pretty solid as far as search engines go.
Fuck, who’s turn was it to pay off bing this month?!
All LLM replies are hallucinations
Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating “The Great Polish Sea”.
It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.
Where?
I’m not sure. It doesn’t exist. Perhaps I’m sleeping.
It may have existed at some time, but was probably towed of of the environment after the front fell off
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point
There
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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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Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.
