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

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

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That makes it sound like an outdated LLM, like GPT-2 or something. You think it is?

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Alas, not smart enough to know 🙁

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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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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.

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My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.

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