I mean basically it's "Conservapedia but it takes itself seriously".
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Anybody going there to test "how bad it is" is giving them traffic, which they can use to brag about its success. Personally, I'd rather completely ignore it and disregard whoever mention it one day as a source, which will never happen hopefuly.
So set the VPN to Iran so it looks like it's only popular with 'ayrab terrorists' to take always his talking point?
Thats a good idea.
A collection of hallucinations sounds more like a bad piece of comedy
Elon Musk NEVER creates anything very useful as of now
Elon Musk NEVER creates.
The first thing I noticed about grokipedia is that it doesn't do a good job at qualifying the strength of sources.
That was an intentional design choice no?
It's been fun watching Elon go from space Jesus to shorthand for any billionaire vanity project that will amount to nothing.
Anyone who knew much about space knew that was nonsense from the start, as colonizing a subantarctic volcano is literally more practical than colonizing Mars.
And that's assuming paradigm shifts in spaceflight. Turns out, they did not materialize at all. With SABRE air-breathing engines and Virgin-style stratolaunches dead, things actually went way worse than I expected years ago.
Don't get me wrong. SpaceX is great, Starship is cool, research in space is awesome. But ever since I've first read Musk's public thoughts, he struck me as 'not scientifically grounded,' and I wondered how that incongruity would shake out.
TL;DR: Truth never mattered, and it still doesn't :(
a powerful man with a vision can be a great thing. until it isn't.
It will burst into flames, like his cars
All cars can catch fire, some more often, others more intensely. Doesn't matter if it's a swastikar or not.
Instead of pitting EVs against ICE, let's all push to reduce car dependence and instead encourage the development of public transit!
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.
If it doesn't do anything useful, I don't think any amount of shoving in front of people is going to amount to much uptake beyond some cursory fiddling to determine its uselessness.
People hand out flyers to every passerby too, and nearly all of those end up in the nearest trash bin.
Facebook, Twitter, and the general burning of the 'old' internet suggest otherwise.
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.
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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
Hyperloop, Neuralink, Tesla Semi, FSD, Mars lander, Roadster, Boring company...But we sent Elizabeth Holmes to jail.
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...
'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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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
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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.
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.
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