#grokipedia

This is a screenshot from Muskrat's new Grokipedia. It's just Wikipedia.

It's Just Wikipedia.

This is from Grokipedia's Multiplicity article!

Let's check out reference 32!

Oh, hey! That's ME!

I'm the source!!!

Here's the post!

Truly, Grokipedia has the best sourcing on the internet!

/s

Okay, but seriously, this is genuinely terrible. Just like everything Elon touches!

To be fair, in this case, the info it's referencing is accurate... but I didn't provide links in that post! I didn't provide a source for my claims about the studies that had been conducted.

It's not that my claims weren't accurate... but that this post wasn't a good source to use for those claims!

Grokipedia found a random Tumblr user claiming that studies had been conducted... and it just ran with it!

This is why Wikipedia doesn't source random Tumblr blogs. You would never find a Tumblr post from me used on Wikipedia as a source. And you know what? That's a good thing!

I should NOT be a source on Wikipedia. I shouldn't be a source on Grokipedia!

But this type of terrible sourcing is, frankly, what Elon and friends want. They don't care about integrity. They want a world where a random blog or podcast is treated as just as credible as a journalist or historian.

Grokipedia is yet another attack on the very concept of truth.

The other founder disagrees.

Grokipedia is only a few months old and is already returning at #2 on many Google searches. Wikipedia will not be able to compete for long.

It'll try, and it'll fail.

in the meantime please help Wikipedia die by not donating. And if you don't like Grokipedia because it's connected to Elon Musk, that is quite simply your loss. You can go hide in the virtue signal corner jerking off with the princesses who refuse to make an X account because they might see the type of Nazi propaganda they don't like (white supremacist) instead of the Nazi propaganda they do like (pro-palestinian). (you see both on every website but that's beside the point - like it or not, if you aren't on X you are simply not involved in the conversation and you are late to everything.

That said, if you truly think Elon is a Nazi you're too stupid to function and you should head over to BlueSky to look at furry cub porn with the other societal rejects and easily manipulated BlueAnon morons.)

it's a shame that Wikipedia sold out and shat itself in the end, but whatever. Onward.

link to parent post:

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Responding to reports of falsehoods in his newly launched Grokipedia project, billionaire Elon Musk concocted a nonsensical conspiracy theory to deflect attention from his latest failure. On Monday, Musk launched Grokipedia, an encyclopedia-style website written by artificial intelligence. And mere hours later, Wired’s review of the site’s content found multiple entries rife with falsehoods and disinformation.  For instance, the entry on slavery in the U.S. outlines “ideological justifications” for the practice and denies that slavery played a key economic role in the development of the nation. In reality, free labor from enslaved people built the economic power of the United States.

The site also furthers several right-wing views.  The site pushes the lie that the spread of pornography in the 1980s worsened to the HIV/AIDS crisis, according to Wired. And the entry on “transgender” also echoes Musk’s bigotry against transgender people, referring to transgender women as “biological males.” The Guardian’s review of Grokipedia noted the site’s entries “appear to hew closely to conservative talking points,” noting the entry on the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol falsely cites “widespread claims of voting irregularities.”

In response to the articles, Musk didn’t appear to correct his site’s misinformation but instead invented a conspiracy. “Wired, The Atlantic, Guardian and many other propaganda legacy publications would die immediately if they had to support themselves. Donations from far left organizations disguised as charities are what keep them alive,” he wrote. “They serve simply as a means of influencing Wikipedia, Google, etc as fake ‘authoritative’ sources.” This lie aligns with conspiracies that Musk has repeatedly spread to deflect from his failings. It is the same technique Musk used years ago when he called a man who criticized his plans for a rescue vehicle a “pedo guy” with no evidence for such an incendiary claim.