Elon Musk's Grokipedia, developed by his company xAI, went live on Monday after months of MAGA railing against the popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia. But a new report points out that Musk's version of Wikipedia appears to be "cribbing" information from the original version. Musk promised to ...
Trying to sow confusion amongst sources of truth. It fails again and again.
I don’t understand what exact problem Grokipedia [1] is even trying to solve.
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You joke but their goal is to replace every institution with a ministry of truth. They’ve done it with the media, they’re doing it with government institutions that used to be independent and evidence based, and they won’t stop until they control all information.
They have more influence on Wikipedia than people realize. Take note of how often wiki pages for famous people will say they are Jewish in the first two sentences.
Now trace the origin of these edits. Often it came from a username such as “OdinWolf88”. Now look at their edit history. These accounts do nothing but add “he/she is Jewish” to the first two sentences of peoples Wikipedia pages.
That and they troll the pages of right wing mass murders and terrorist attacks.
There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. It allows YouTube and Twitter as sources. I once saw a sentence like “liberals believe _______” and the source was a tweet with like 40 likes.
There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. […]
Interestingly, the site is timing out for me right now [1], but I’ve been able to find some interesting archived information: for example, they have a page titled “Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia” [2]. To say the least, I take issue with some of their rationale.
Years ago I saw a page on that site about irrational numbers that was pure comedy. Basically they begrudgingly admit that irrational numbers might actually exist (whatever that means for numbers), but heavily implied that it’s a liberal plot of some kind stemming from moral relativism or whatever. Just insane ramblings.
It’s gotten to the point where now if someone links to YouTube, I’ll think they’re more likely to be wrong than if they just asserted it with no link. Because if it was true, it would probably have a better source.
Again, that’s the point. That’s their angle. Dilute everything so you can’t tell what is factually accurate, and then you have kids reading this dumb shit and assuming it is true.
I don’t understand what exact problem Grokipedia [1] is even trying to solve.
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The ‘problem’ where Wikipedia doesn’t allow conservatives to edit in propaganda and disinformation as much as they’d like.
Yeah, this exactly. It’s really hard to find actually credible sources for many of the rightwing “facts” they want to publish.
What do you mean? There are literally thousands of memes on Facebook, that back up every single claim. How is that not enough for you people? /s
You joke but their goal is to replace every institution with a ministry of truth. They’ve done it with the media, they’re doing it with government institutions that used to be independent and evidence based, and they won’t stop until they control all information.
I wonder if they allow Grok itself as a source
They feel it to be true. What more evidence do you need?
So basically what grok was trying to solve.
They have more influence on Wikipedia than people realize. Take note of how often wiki pages for famous people will say they are Jewish in the first two sentences.
Now trace the origin of these edits. Often it came from a username such as “OdinWolf88”. Now look at their edit history. These accounts do nothing but add “he/she is Jewish” to the first two sentences of peoples Wikipedia pages.
That and they troll the pages of right wing mass murders and terrorist attacks.
Reality. They don’t like reality.
There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. It allows YouTube and Twitter as sources. I once saw a sentence like “liberals believe _______” and the source was a tweet with like 40 likes.
Interestingly, the site is timing out for me right now [1], but I’ve been able to find some interesting archived information: for example, they have a page titled “Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia” [2]. To say the least, I take issue with some of their rationale.
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Years ago I saw a page on that site about irrational numbers that was pure comedy. Basically they begrudgingly admit that irrational numbers might actually exist (whatever that means for numbers), but heavily implied that it’s a liberal plot of some kind stemming from moral relativism or whatever. Just insane ramblings.
It’s gotten to the point where now if someone links to YouTube, I’ll think they’re more likely to be wrong than if they just asserted it with no link. Because if it was true, it would probably have a better source.
Again, that’s the point. That’s their angle. Dilute everything so you can’t tell what is factually accurate, and then you have kids reading this dumb shit and assuming it is true.