Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!

I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.

Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time

Google isn't even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it

Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon

Now that's what I like to see!

Fuck, who's turn was it to pay off bing this month?!

Search engines don't make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.

does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?...

...Guess I'm from Queensland, New York now.

Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

All LLM replies are hallucinations

Reminds me of time when Poland was erased from Time Zones map in Windows, creating "The Great Polish Sea".

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It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.

Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.

This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with "K" before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.

#AustraliaIsntReal

Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It's finally all coming out...

Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an "accidental leak"

Australia is really New Zealand, everyone knows that.

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Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real

It would've been better if they just kept it... I mean, the theory has everybody already

Whats the one that "ackshually" doesn't exist? Its like some running gag or something

I mean have you heard an Australian accent? It's like "this is totally a legit accent, we're speaking English, mate, jabbamawong!" half of it isn't even words they just make it up as they go like they're not being sarcastic.

Never bought it.

fact

I’ll bet it does though.

We don’t

Who caaaaaares, why is this news 😭? It's been said over and over that these networks aren't reliable and can make mistakes, so what, it will be fixed in a month or so? Is not like these systems are deployed in critical situations or anything