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Google's AI doesn't seem to understand preferential voting (quokk.au)
submitted 4 days ago by Zagorath@quokk.au to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Amanda Cooper lost the election. It was a very close contest, only 31 votes once preferences were distributed. But Bart Mellish did win. Google knows this, all the top results show Bart Mellish's official pages, social media, and news/encyclopaedia articles about him.

I can only assume its AI crawler saw the first preference votes and a reasoning model decided that must mean Amanda Cooper won. Because no actual written source could have reported that.

I tried the search again a few minutes later and got the correct result.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 0 points 3 days ago

Expecting understanding of concepts from LLMs is a category error.