All he has to do is force it in front of people's eyes instead of Wikipedia. It doesn't actually have to be useful, just in the way.
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Ultimately, this could highlight the incredibly high value of wikipedia as a common ressource, and might lead to better things there.
Maybe.
Awww... I wish I had that level of optimism.
He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.
Well this won't be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I'm pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).
Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”
Amen, it's nice to see the level-headedness.
It'll effect things as much Conservapedia does. A laughing stock to gawk at and nothing more.
I bet by the end of next year it's dead.
One key difference: Conservapedia was young earth creationist, Grok is not. That amount of difference unfortunately enough to convince a lot of average Joes of credibility.
Conservatives will use the nazipedia and everyone else will mock them for it
Let's hope this time it'll be like that, and not like Gamergate, when far-right conservatives convinced a generation worth of gamers that they're not for-censorship, because they missed the times of calling blacks the N-word.
They might not need it to last longer than that.
This is a takeover.
Affect
Effect vs affect: Use 'impact' instead of having to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.
Not to sure about the latter part.
Elmo will be bankrupt in not too much time but for the moment he has pockets so deep he single handedly could fund wikipedia for the next millenia. For as long as he isn't bankrupt and alive, that turd will be around
Remember that Elon overpromises & underdelivers
Not really.
Remember that Elmo just lies his ass off almost all the time.
Over promises and under delivery are such extreme understatements with him, almost everything bhe says is just pure imaginary bullshit
Lying his ass off literally is the only thing he does well, it made Tesla stocks balloon to being overvalued somewhere in 10-100 times their actual value
Remember hyperloop, that project that even high schoolers could identify as absolutely dumb? Billions and billions in investment money has been wasted on absolute bullshit that will never work.
But what about SpaceX, I hear you type?
Remember how we'd land on Mars in 2018, now 7-8 years ago? Yeah, Elmo is currently at about 1% of that particular promise. Again, it's not under delivery, it's just actual plain bullshit
Speaking of SpaceX, ISRO was able to come up with a design of a Reusable-launch vehicle in half the price & did it way before them
Literally. With everything. In every business he touches. Yet the stock goes up. It's stupid.
Hmm it seems the speculative market loves speculation rather than actual results...
What does Grokipedia say on the genocide in South Africa?
well, the website only has one button, that redirects to the actions of Grokipedia with the options to buy or sell some.
I guess you have to interact with their actions to use the thing?
Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.
Reading his Wiki page, he does sound rather reasonable. Support for Occupy Wallstreet, running as a UK Labour candidate, openly calling not to elect Trump and also calling the US Libertarian Party "lunatics".
British libertarians get a pass on account of living in a monarchy but if you want to know why Labour's shitting the bed, well, they let a right wing libertarian run as Labour.
this is a perfect example of why we should always allow an escape space for everyone. Sometimes that person in the space you are polar opposed too will create something that defies even their own rules
Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers' political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.
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It's going to become an AI written clone of Wikipedia with all the personal opinions of Elon mixed in. I don't see it going anywhere.
If you check it out, its not going to become that because it IS that. Its all AI rewritten articles from Wikipedia with Elon's alt right biases applied. Some of the less political pages aren't even really rewrites but just copy/pastes
Nazi biases. Not alt right, that sanitized euphemism for fascist fuckhead.
'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'
Or ever create anything (he's just stealing other people's creations, at best)
More like ruining other people's creations, he has the opposite of Midas touch, anything he touches turns to shit
Truly the Thomas Edison of the 21st century.
He's like if Edison and Henry Ford had a baby and it only inherited the worst parts of both.
He thinks he's Nikolai Tesla, but yeah, he's the other guy!
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Stealing and enshittifying
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Musk is just Nazi-washing what he stole from Wikipedia, he doesn't have the base of volunteers and employees to maintain his latest toy. A year from now, it will be gone and forgotten, and we'll all be shouting at each other to go vote.
Guess Conservapedia wasn't conservative enough.
No, they already have Metapedia for that.
Yet another horrible thing that apparently exists. Boooo.
It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.
They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.
This is what scares me. The fact that they are doing it at all. It's providing more spaces for people to shut themselves in completely with the information they want. These fucking desperate bigots will never be satisfied until the entire world reflects their bigoted ass beliefs, but since that will never happen they will fight a civil war for Elon out of sheer ignorant self obsession, instead
It will be a another propaganda mouthpiece, and have all the credibility of Fox News.
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