hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoSomething weird going on at DuckDuck…beehaw.orgimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up192arrow-down1imageSomething weird going on at DuckDuck…beehaw.orghedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·edit-21 year 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-squaretuckerm@supermeter.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up30·1 year 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-squarenyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year 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.