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As a long-time fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide, I have no memory of the word 'grok' appearing, and the internet at large appears to agree.
I read Stranger in a Strange Land a couple decades ago, and the word is presented in a way that's pretty easy to remember where you got it from.
I don't tend to use Google AI overview or any other such tools to get answers like this to quip back at people, and I'd appreciate if you didn't just assume I did.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/11/elon-musk-xai-grok-hitchhikers-guide-galaxy-douglas-adams.html