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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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[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I did know that. But I think you give him more credit of self-awareness than he has. Elon Musk is a vacuous ego with a lot of money. I don't believe he has the depth of mind to actually hold any political ideology, for good or ill. I think he is singularly focused on being the Best Boy, and will ape anything that helps him feel that way.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You're probably right. He was the lib-left's Best Boy a few years back, was gonna solve climate change and do cool science shit and whatever, but then I forget what exactly happened but he kinda swung the other direction.

Motivation probably doesn't matter too much. It just highlights the systemic problem of allowing one person to have that much money-power.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You make it sound as if Naziism is a political ideology and not just a hate cult. everyone who is a nazi because of self serving reasons is still a nazi, even if they are stupid or so drugged that one might question if they have any agency. they are still nazis.

Most nazis are really stupid and irrational and don't need a reason either, still nazis.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

even edgelord vacuous nazis are just that: nazis. No matter the reason, or if it's meant "ironically", they're a nazi. There's no excusing it, or softening it, they're a full blown nazi.

He did the nazi salute on stage, at least twice, he holds extreme right-wing and white supremacist views, he is a nazi.