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

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Just because you don’t like the top result doesn’t mean it is irrelevant EDIT: I am in fact an asshole. I see the problem now 😂

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True, but I don’t think those periodicals would normally (or ever) characterize themselves that way.

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You’re not an asshole, no worries 🙂

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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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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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That makes it sound like an outdated LLM, like GPT-2 or something.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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Im still looking for the weird thing going on at duckduck

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I’m on Fennec, searching DuckDuck from the address bar. Here’s another one:

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Weird I just searched and got totally different text, can’t upload the screens screenshot tho

A Current Affairs subscription is one of the best known ways to improve your life in a hurry. Our print magazine is released six times a year, in a beautiful full-color edition full of elegant design, sophisticated prose, and satirical advertisements. Tell me more How Anti-Homeless Sentiment Made Its Way Into Popular Cartoons Alex Skopic

The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah

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Checked with startpage & DDG, got the same as this guy times soo…

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Wasn’t there a funny little zero-day in a widely used Wordpress plugin just last week?

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I mean the one that was bad enough to bubble up on a front page on my phone ;)

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“Smart WordPress sites”, now that’s an oxymoron!

But do please tell how you figure out if a plugin will be caught having a vulnerability or not.

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It did the same for me.

I clicked on the link then went back and the description calling it conservative was gone.

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And it came back lol. Wild man.

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