The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?
Im still looking for the weird thing going on at duckduck
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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I'm on Fennec, searching DuckDuck from the address bar. Here's another one:
Weird I just searched and got totally different text, can't upload the screens screenshot tho
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Checked with startpage & DDG, got the same as this guy times soo...
Yeah where are those descriptions coming from? Also mentions “the strike workers’ strike” and repeats “politics” twice
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.
That makes it sound like an outdated LLM, like GPT-2 or something. You think it is?
Alas, not smart enough to know 🙁
It did the same for me.
I clicked on the link then went back and the description calling it conservative was gone.
And it came back lol. Wild man.
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.
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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 .
Outside the US that term is usually used for market liberalism.
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.
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DDG going hard with horseshoe theory
Are they just using "conservative" as a synonym for something like "political"?
I'm getting the same results as this person. Not the weird ones like the original post
@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." 🙄