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Bing search: "should I throw my car battery in the ocean" Bing says: "Yes, according to 2 sources" The sources are articles summarizing Google's (now fixed) suggestion to throw batteries in the ocean.

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Bing search: "should I throw my car battery in the ocean" Bing says: "Yes, according to 2 sources" The sources are articles summarizing Google's (now fixed) suggestion to throw batteries in the ocean.
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Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 18:58:37 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

OMG.
1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!
?
(Apparently none of this is AI... yet.)

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