The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?
- DonnieDarkmode ( @DonnieDarkmode@lemm.ee ) English31•7 months ago
Yeah where are those descriptions coming from? Also mentions “the strike workers’ strike” and repeats “politics” twice
- floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English44•7 months ago
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 ( @tuckerm@supermeter.social ) 30•7 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.
- nyan ( @nyan@lemmy.cafe ) English17•7 months ago
My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.
- radix ( @radix@lemm.ee ) 10•7 months ago
That makes it sound like an outdated LLM, like GPT-2 or something. You think it is?
Alas, not smart enough to know 🙁
- Steal Wool ( @h3mlocke@lemm.ee ) English31•7 months ago
Im still looking for the weird thing going on at duckduck
I’m on Fennec, searching DuckDuck from the address bar. Here’s another one:
- Steal Wool ( @h3mlocke@lemm.ee ) English13•7 months ago
Weird I just searched and got totally different text, can’t upload the screens screenshot tho
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- Uvine_Umarylis ( @Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com ) 4•7 months ago
Checked with startpage & DDG, got the same as this guy times soo…
- tuckerm ( @tuckerm@supermeter.social ) 11•7 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.
- TransplantedSconie ( @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ) 11•7 months ago
It did the same for me.
I clicked on the link then went back and the description calling it conservative was gone.
- TransplantedSconie ( @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ) 9•7 months ago
And it came back lol. Wild man.
- fitz ( @lemmy@linkopath.com ) English10•7 months ago
Even using searxng it comes up with Google & qwant show it as conservative. But allsides has it left leaning bias.
Interesting that allsides has The Atlantic as being on the liberal side of things; Mrs. Hedge describes it as “a make work project for unemployed neocons.” David Frum, the “axis of evil” guy, is a regular contributor there .
- DarkThoughts ( @DarkThoughts@kbin.social ) 8•7 months ago
Outside the US that term is usually used for market liberalism.
- DarkThoughts ( @DarkThoughts@kbin.social ) 1•7 months ago
Same for Media Bias / Fact Check.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-intercept/Could not find anything in the source code related to that either so I’m not sure from where that description is pulled from.
- sorchist ( @sorchist@beehaw.org ) 10•7 months ago
DDG going hard with horseshoe theory
- WalrusDragonOnABike ( @WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social ) 6•7 months ago
Are they just using “conservative” as a synonym for something like “political”?
- baggachipz ( @baggachipz@kbin.social ) 6•7 months ago
https://kagi.com/search?q=the+intercept shows a nice wikipedia description:
- Bratwurstboy ( @Bratwurstboy@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 4•7 months ago
- limerod ( @limerod@reddthat.com ) 4•7 months ago
I’m getting the same results as this person. Not the weird ones like the original post
- KinNectar ( @KinNectar@kbin.run ) 2•7 months ago
@hedge because they aren’t using the political compass. Two or three political dimensions with only two words describing them leads to meaningless labeling.
That would explain it! I think I remember seeing Jacobin as being the same degree of liberal as The Atlantic, and there’s no way that could be right! Oops, I mean “correct.” 🙄