A bloke on Twitter noticed that if you ask Google "can you melt eggs", its Featured Snippet (i.e: the top/prime/first thing a user sees) says that "yes, an egg can be melted" - which is wrong, you can't melt an egg. How did the incorrect answer get there? Google pulls the answer from Quora, which is SEO'd to the eyeballs specifically to be that top result (and for some reason Google still trusts this dumpster fire). Quora's website reckons you an melt an egg because it has infused GPT-3 into its platform, adding its responses to common questions alongside human responses. Welcome to the human centipede of information.
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