Never worry about commie crap like public citations getting in the way of misinformation rhetoric again! (Because the AI made it up lmao)
What’s with his obession with the name “grok” though? Sounds like the sound frog made
Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by SmokeyDope@piefed.social to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
What an obscure reach to make.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
That’s fucking hilarious for an LLM.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Media literacy is at an all time low, especially among terminally online “activists”.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t anyone remember groklaw? I feel like sometimes only I remember the early Internet anymore….
athairmor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I fully expect the SCO case to be resurrected at some point in this timeline. Then they’ll know.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
trying to be an edgy almost teenager.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
grok = caveman?
Xylight@lemdro.id 3 weeks ago
Rather ironic given that wikipedia makes a massive portion of LLM training corpus
dabster291@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not to mention most Grokipedia pages are straight copied from Wikipedia!
TheMadCodger@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Didn’t there used to be conservapedia that was just Wikipedia but edited to match their imagined reality?
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Funny how the “voting irregularities” magically disappeared when he won.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A thief doesn’t loudly announce that they just stole something.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
and not mentioning that elon himself, said he was going to get charged for interfering with the election if Harris won.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They forgot the quotes on “fact checked”
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It was fact-checked to remove all actual facts from it.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Prior criminal convictions matter to you, eh, Elon? You know Trump has 34 of them, right?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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!”
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
that’s hilarious because wikipedia leans nowhere near left
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Reality has a liberal bias
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Ah yes, the reality of the genocide in Gaza has a liberal bias. That sounds accurate…
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
According to liberals.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That dipshit really doesn’t have any understanding of what the word grok actually means.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Tbf, I never thought it meant anything
codemankey@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Somebody (Robert Heinlein) made it up in a book (Stranger in a Strange Land).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It means to understand something at a fundamental level
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
“We have compiled the largest website full of absolute bullshit and stupidity to compete against the largest compendium of real human knowledge.”
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Elon invented the airplane.”
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
It instead is 100% to repeat what Elon wants you to believe
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So did he just clone wikipedia?
lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No, the articles are reliably allucinated by Grok… with a sprinkle of editing for making sure the echo chamber is air tight
SmokeyDope@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be so funny if someone hacks the site and only changes that, and nobody notices for weeks…