Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer

Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by rob74 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:10AM (#37658757)

Google's "answers" feature was already unreliable enough when there was only one AI involved (the one picking the answers) - I remember it once said that the capacity of an Amiga floppy was 1760 KB, because the Wikipedia page it picked (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_variants#Amiga) failed to mention the capacity of the "standard" floppies and only provided a number for the (non-standard) HD floppies.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:33AM (#37659061)

I once googled a niche question, liked the instant answer, saw it was on HN. Clicked on it. It was me. I wrote the answer to my own question, and I guess forgot 5 years later.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by d-lisp on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:39AM (#37659142)

That's a kind of "google instant answer to my question is an article from my own blog" situation.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by eurekin on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:37AM (#37659117)

Was that the "how knowledgeable person that must've been" moment for you, before you noticed? :D

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:08AM (#37659563)

I didnt even notice till I saw I couldnt do the normal upvote / save comment, then I looked at the username lol!

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by LetsGetTechnicl on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:00AM (#37659421)

That reminds me of Twitter user @foone who often goes on deep dives on random tech and old chips, and on several occasions the top Google result for a chip serial number is one of their old tweets

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by jondwillis on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:03AM (#37659464)

Has happened to me on StackOverflow multiple times. Always hilarious and makes one reflect.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by achr2 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:09AM (#37659590)

Always fun when you go to upvote an answer you found useful, only to be told you can’t upvote your own answer… definitely a pensive moment!

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:07AM (#37659548)

Had a boss who needed some obscure regex, it had 1 minor bug, he fixed it, whenever he needed it again he'd find the question.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by swayvil on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:15AM (#37659688)

I see what you did there.

Reflect. A mirror.

Is it knowledge (gleaned from the world) or just a reflection?

Well if you're looking straight at it then it's pretty obvious whether it's a mirror or not. But add a couple of filters and suddenly you're having a conversation with yourself like a crazy person.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by sanj on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:03AM (#37659475)

I had a similar experience trying to find a justification for a “House rule” we use when playing Catan (aka “the penny rule”).

In trying to find a reputable source, the first result was to an HN comment… that I wrote.

The folks we were playing with were not convinced.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:06AM (#37659531)

Thats even better than my experience lol! I was just like "WOW THIS IS COOL, but... nobody will ever google this lol" I dont even remember the question, I just know it was some shenanigans with Rust and various other languages.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by dclowd9901 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:53AM (#37661177)

How are you supposed to help it if _you’re_ the authority?

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by gs17 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:09PM (#37661440)

Searching for it now there's also a Reddit post mentioning it, but that might also be from you/your friends. I like that rule, but I can see it being hard to convince people to use it despite it obviously making the game more fair.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by floydnoel on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:33PM (#37664708)

Well at least we’re talking about it now! What is the rule?

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by gs17 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:09AM (#37669980)

If you don't get resources in a turn (and didn't get robbed) you get a penny. You can trade pennies for resources, but the exchange rate gets worse the more victory points you have.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by ilyt on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:24AM (#37659810)

I once googled same question, got lead to same Reddit answer where some twat just says "google it". Ended up commenting in that thread with actual answer just so when I land there for 3rd time there is actual answer available

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by DamnInteresting on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:15AM (#37660585)

I had a similar experience recently. I started working for a firm that has some legacy Perl code still in service, and in the process of Googling I was presented with one of my own answers on perlmonks.org from over 20 years ago. The emotions were complicated.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by shmoogy on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:18AM (#37673571)

This is what made me start taking notes and saving snippets in Obsidian. The number of times I googled something I struggled with and found a Reddit or other post (from myself) where I edited in my answer after getting no help was ... interesting.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by ozmodiar on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:39AM (#37659140)

One of my favorite examples was this story of someone who tried to correct its answer for how to carmalize onions. Google got the last laugh by citing the text on their page that had the exact wrong answer they were trying to debunk in the first place https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-...

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by benterix on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:20AM (#37658889)

Yeah, I remember when you searched for the Dalai Lama, and returned "Nationality: Chinese".

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by bqmjjx0kac on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:31AM (#37659032)

I remember searching for the Rainbow Bridge and learning that it connects the USA and Canada while being guarded by Heimdall, the Asgardian.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by thehappypm on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:34AM (#37659071)

That’s pretty funny, at least.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by ben_w on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:04AM (#37659502)

I remember, when it was new, it was claiming that Neil Armstrong first walked on the Earth in 1969.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by bagasme on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:09AM (#37659582)

And since 2021, Google also places scraped Wikipedia articles from possibly shadow, low-end colleges operated by the same marketing group, higher than Wikipedia itself; despite these sites forget proper attribution to original Wikipedia texts [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co...

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by adrianmonk on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:29PM (#37661732)

Search: "first baby boomer president".

Google knowledge panel's answer: "Harry S. Truman".

The correct answer is Bill Clinton, born in 1946.

Truman was president from 1945 to 1953, so he was the first president in office during the actual baby boom, when the Baby Boomers were babies. So there seems to be a connection, it's just totally the wrong one.

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Re:Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct... by lossolo on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:20PM (#37663617)

ChatGPT:

> The first baby boomer president of the United States is Bill Clinton. He was born on August 19, 1946, which places him within the demographic cohort known as the baby boomers.

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