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Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” (theintercept.com)

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In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” But while Musk’s Grokipedia, in his eyes, is propaganda-free, it seems to have a proclivity toward right-wing hagiography.

Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.

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[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We truly are on the precipice of a dark age, aren't we?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

when trump croaks, shit either gets bad then alot better, or shit gets bad then alot worse

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"a lot", not "alot". This is an alot!

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

english was a mistake

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I thought for a second that he had his shitty AI edit the actual Wikipedia page, I hope they have a system in place that prevents this from happening

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Maga probably jerks off to it very often

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How much longer until Musk says something like "the holocaust wasn't that bad", "the holocaust was merely an effort to deport the undocumented Jews", or even "let's do it again!"

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