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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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[–] khepri@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe I'm just not getting the distinction between "The Fuhrer" literally redirecting to the Hitler page on Wikipedia, isn't that Wikipedia saying those two terms are so synonymous that they don't need separate pages?

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 1 points 22 hours ago

Wikipedia isn't using the term to describe Hitler on that page though, it's not saying "The Fuhrer was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era". That's the difference.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok, so it'd be like if a wikipedia page about jesus said he was "our lord and saviour" instead of saying "some people consider him to be their lord and saviour". A page for "Lord and saviour" as a phrase might still list jesus as one possible link.

Basically taking a first person position on it, instead of a third person position. Like grokipedia is writing from first person perspective that Hitler is the fuhrer, which when you consider that it is a significant departure from the wikipedia article, as only 0.01% of the content of grokipedia is, suggests it's a hand crafted article written by someone that would refer to hitler personally as the leader, and not as someone some people used to call "the leader".

There is a reason it was edited immediately as soon as people noticed, due to how bad it looked once pointed out.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

think of it like this. everyone thinks you're an asshole, but I think you're the asshole.