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mctreeleth · 1 year ago

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Given the decline of Google results thanks to AI, it's only a matter of time until that old Telstra ad poisons the dataset enough that it spits out a result saying that the Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out, and we will have come full circle.

#This post is only for Australians in their mid-late 30s and for that I apologise #for everyone else - in the early 2000s there was an ad on TV a phone and internet provider #the premise of which was a dad who didn't know the answer to his son's question so he just made stuff up #whereas if he had gotten this newfangled internet thing he could have given his son the correct answer and saved the embarrassment #and now 2 decades on... yeah the Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out

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