1d ago

Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.

Never worry about commie crap like public citations getting in the way of misinformation rhetoric again! (Because the LLM trained on fuckin twitter made it up lmao)

On the flipside for an actually cool non-cucked integration of LLMs with wikipedia check out this post on the localllama where the person shares their project of using a local private llm to search through a local kiwix server instance of wikipedia. https://piefed.social/post/1333130

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SmokeyDope @piefed.social 1d ago
- Harvey656 @lemmy.world 1d ago
  It would be so funny if someone hacks the site and only changes that, and nobody notices for weeks...
Xylight @lemdro.id 1d ago
Rather ironic given that wikipedia makes a massive portion of LLM training corpus
- dabster291 @lemmy.zip 1d ago
  Not to mention most Grokipedia pages are straight copied from Wikipedia!
  
  TheMadCodger @piefed.social 1d ago
  Didn't there used to be conservapedia that was just Wikipedia but edited to match their imagined reality?
Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip 1d ago
What's with his obession with the name "grok" though? Sounds like the sound frog made
- Clay_pidgin @sh.itjust.works 1d ago
  It's from a book I love, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. The word is the Martian term for fully understanding something.
  
  Elgenzay @lemmy.ml 1d ago
  That's really funny. He steals the name Tesla and Grok and when he tries to come up with his own names, we get "X" and "X Æ A-Xii"
  
  SocialMediaRefugee @lemmy.world 1d ago
  What an obscure reach to make.
  
  shalafi @lemmy.world 1d ago
  I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
- LadyMeow @lemmy.blahaj.zone 1d ago
  I believe it is from the book stranger in a strange land. Its meaning is like to deeeeply understand, I think.
  
  Lemminary @lemmy.world 18h ago
  That's fucking hilarious for an LLM.
  
  Madison420 @lemmy.world 2h ago
  Not deeply but completely and absolutely.
  Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed — to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science and it means as little to us as color does to a blind man.
- shalafi @lemmy.world 1d ago
  
  You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It's not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding, really feel it down deep.
  As to Musk's obsession? He wants to be seen as the cool kid, the smart hacker, the guy who groks what's really going on.
  Honestly it's a great name for a search engine or AI. And now he's actively ruining it like everything else he touches.
  BTW, Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent book. I laugh when people call Heinlein a fascist for writing Starship Troopers. "So, how about that hippie book?" Heinlein's books examine various government and economic systems, "What if it worked this way?"
- cv_octavio @piefed.ca 1d ago
  Doesn't anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore....
  
  athairmor @lemmy.world 1d ago
  I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.
- LordOfLocksley @lemmy.world 1d ago
  Funny you say that. In Serbia, they say the noise a pig makes is "grok". My wife burst out laughing when she found out the name of Elon's AI.
  Imagine some Saudi prince launches an AI called Oink, and then sets up Oinkepedia
- bitwolf @sh.itjust.works 4h ago
  I always assumed Grok was chosen to hint as his technology background. For which "grok" is a popular term used for reading and understanding, with code in particular.
  
  Madison420 @lemmy.world 2h ago
  It's a Heinlein - "stranger in a strange land" concept. It sort of spread out in nerdery from there where it meant you know and you're in the know.
  To know is to understand fully sort of. He's doing the literal opposite which is a bit 1984 of him and is also likely another book he's read and didn't understand or at least had pretended to have read.
Elgenzay @lemmy.ml 1d ago
- SocialMediaRefugee @lemmy.world 1d ago
  Funny how the "voting irregularities" magically disappeared when he won.
  
  pivot_root @lemmy.world 1d ago
  A thief doesn't loudly announce that they just stole something.
- Wispy2891 @lemmy.world 1d ago
  They forgot the quotes on "fact checked" and maybe a wink emoji at the end of that sentence
  
  samus12345 @sh.itjust.works 7h ago
  It was fact-checked to remove all actual facts from it.
- samus12345 @sh.itjust.works 7h ago
  Prior criminal convictions matter to you, eh, Elon? You know Trump has 34 of them, right?
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social 1d ago
"We have compiled the largest website full of absolute bullshit and stupidity to compete against the largest compendium of real human knowledge."
shalafi @lemmy.world 1d ago
So why didn't Conservapedia take off? If it's unbiased truth, no liberal agenda, it should have blown Wikipedia out of the water a decade ago. Funny that.
- Mniot @programming.dev 1h ago
  Conservapedia was comically stupid. Like, there was a lengthy diatribe against the Theory of Relativity that seemed largely based off Andrew Schlafly confusing the Physics term "relativity" with "moral relativity" and being against the latter. This was especially weird because Schlafly personally had a background in applied physics and so ought to know that GPS satellites serve as a proof of some of Relativity.
  As embarrassing as basically every page of Conservapedia was, at least it represented some stupid man's beliefs and effort. Grokipedia can't even do that.
☂️- @lemmy.ml 7h ago
that's hilarious because wikipedia leans nowhere near left
- johnyreeferseed @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3h ago
  Reality has a well known liberal bias
  
  Tiresia @slrpnk.net 1h ago
  Ah yes, the reality of the genocide in Gaza has a liberal bias. That sounds accurate...
- Mwa @thelemmy.club 7h ago
  true,they lean neutral.
  
  BrainInABox @lemmy.ml 7h ago
  They lean centre right
A_Random_Idiot @lemmy.world 7h ago

If you have to create a wikipedia alternative to stop being fact checked, then maybe you are just fuckin wrong.
Billionaires: "No, No.. I can't be wrong. I'm Rich! I'll create a microcosm of information that warps reality to make sure I'm right!"
Conservapedia: Wait..thats what I was for.. what about me?!
SocialMediaRefugee @lemmy.world 1d ago
"Elon invented the airplane."
buddascrayon @lemmy.world 34m ago
That dipshit really doesn't have any understanding of what the word grok actually means.
- /home/pineapplelover @lemmy.dbzer0.com 24m ago
  Tbf, I never thought it meant anything
frog_brawler @lemmy.world 40m ago
So did he just clone wikipedia?
1rre @discuss.tchncs.de 4h ago
Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they're wrong in matters of fact, which is why there's so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.
I can't say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take "without bias" to actually mean "without bias," rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.

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