Technology

'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'

Or ever create anything (he's just stealing other people's creations, at best)

Remember that Elon overpromises & underdelivers

Musk is just Nazi-washing what he stole from Wikipedia, he doesn't have the base of volunteers and employees to maintain his latest toy. A year from now, it will be gone and forgotten, and we'll all be shouting at each other to go vote.

Jimmy Wales: Libertarian that ended up creating perhaps the most successful collectivist project of all time.

He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.

Well this won't be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I'm pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).

Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”

Amen, it's nice to see the level-headedness.

It's going to become an AI written clone of Wikipedia with all the personal opinions of Elon mixed in. I don't see it going anywhere.

It will be a another propaganda mouthpiece, and have all the credibility of Fox News.

It'll effect things as much Conservapedia does. A laughing stock to gawk at and nothing more.

I bet by the end of next year it's dead.

It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.

They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.

Anybody going there to test "how bad it is" is giving them traffic, which they can use to brag about its success. Personally, I'd rather completely ignore it and disregard whoever mention it one day as a source, which will never happen hopefuly.

All he has to do is force it in front of people's eyes instead of Wikipedia. It doesn't actually have to be useful, just in the way.

They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt

Elon Musk NEVER creates anything very useful as of now

Ultimately, this could highlight the incredibly high value of wikipedia as a common ressource, and might lead to better things there.

Maybe.

What does Grokipedia say on the genocide in South Africa?

The first thing I noticed about grokipedia is that it doesn't do a good job at qualifying the strength of sources.

I mean basically it's "Conservapedia but it takes itself seriously".

It's been fun watching Elon go from space Jesus to shorthand for any billionaire vanity project that will amount to nothing.

How long until AI models start training off Grokipedia, and we have the biggest game of hallucination telephone?

A collection of hallucinations sounds more like a bad piece of comedy

https://www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-and-the-coup-against-reality-itself/

Relevant

They are going to clone Wikipedia, then use some flimsy excuse to get it shut down under something like "anti conservative bias". He'll position Nazipedia to replace it.