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Something weird going on at DuckDuck… (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?

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[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 1 points 10 months ago

It showed me the same thing, but after searching again a few times I'm now seeing a summary of the articles on their homepages.

Side note: I've had a weird bug a few times with DDG lately, where it showed me results for current events that were completely unrelated to what I was looking for. I searched for something like "10 inch chef's knife" but the results were as though I had typed "US house of representatives speaker." This has happened maybe three or four times in the last two weeks.

[–] DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 1 points 10 months ago

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.