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Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” (theintercept.com)
submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Maga probably jerks off to it very often

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months 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

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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!"

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Do not get the point here. He did in fact and historically used that name. So we are deleting history now because we are not supposed like Hitler or Elon?

Stalin was a mass murderer, so was Mao, yet they also went by some nicer names. No one has ever raised a serious issue about that.

I do not think anyone here is denying that Hitler was a National Socialist.

Slow news day, I guess.

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