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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 56 points 1 month ago

With Grok, Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics.

Fuck you.

Signed,

a physicist

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics. It replaces partially masked evidences of how legacy media operates, rewriting with complete accurate context that cuts through the BS.

Christ, these people are so fucking stupid. Can't wait to see how Nazi autocomplete solves the problem of induction.

Also, 'fun' fact. The second result for first principles on ddg is a blog post by a self-help guru sucking Musk off so hard you'd think they're being held at gun point.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, Conservapedia but more banal?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Going on the Grok output, I saw: Conservapedia with more uses of the word fuck (it can now use the word fuck), extremely verbose mid insults and weird flirting.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Guillotines don't work in space, that's why billionaires are so obsessed with going there.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Airlock can be a verb.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 1 month ago

@Stern @etherphon

I’m sure explosive bolts or similar could take the place of gravity if needed.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does if you're accelerating / decelerating.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Make it out of a rail gun for an even more scifi version.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

Because xpedia is too close to another company name.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So... They're going to use the bot trained on wikipedia to rewrite wikipedia. Very much a Pierre Menard type situation.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ah, but they can inject it with all kinds of fascist bullshit.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

For it to be authentic, they need multiple bots arguing on Talk pages and undoing each other's edits.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder where he's going to get sources to cite.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i wonder what else he had go wrong the last period he needed a distraction like this