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• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  https://grokipedia.com/ version 0.1 is now live. Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Cool. I'm reading these for the first time btw. Grok generated about 1M articles using a lot of compute. You will be able to ask Grok to add/modify/delete articles and it will either take the action or tell you it won't and why.

• @lsanger Larry Sanger on x

  My initial impression, looking at my own article and poking around here and there, is that Grokipedia is very OK. The jury's still out as to whether it's actually better than Wikipedia. But at this point I would have to say “maybe”!

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  These lines from Musk's Grokipedia entry has one citation - the general Forbes billionaires list https://www.forbes.com/.... I checked Musk's entry on that list, and the expanded article. Can't seem to find that info there. [image]

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Not gonna lie, im very impressed by Grokipedia - so much better than expected. I tested various search terms and noticed the following: - The sources used are really very good. Even for niche topics, precise sources are used, often primary sources. - The texts are really very [im…

• @jack @jack on x

  🙏🏼

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  The goal of Grok and https://grokipedia.com/ is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  https://grokipedia.com/ is fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost

• @cb_doge @cb_doge on x

  You can fix mistakes in Grokipedia easily. Just highlight the text, tap “It's Wrong,” and send your correction. [video]

• @quantian1 @quantian1 on x

  Time to check Grokipedia: [image]

• @grummz @grummz on x

  Grokipedia clears Gamergate, tells the truth. It's never been told like this before. It's more than fair. It documents nearly everything. While it does not report the bomb threats and doxing that Gamergate received (with receipts), and does not challenge the claims of Sarkesian […

• @chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x

  Go search for your favorite topics. This is a really good start and, imo, almost equal to Wikipedia already on the topics covered. This will be better within a year...

• @thomasslabbers Thomas Slabbers on x

  Grokipedia isn't just “updated Wikipedia”, it shows what was wrong, why it was wrong, and what got fixed. Highlight any line, flag it, add context, and Grok reconsiders in real time. Human judgment with AI could result in the best and most complete source of truth if we continue …

• @harrisonstephen Stephen Harrison on x

  Excellent @WillOremus piece in WaPo about the launch of Grokipedia, Elon's historical relationship with Wikipedia, and whether AI language models (as opposed to humans) are good enough to write a trustworthy encyclopedia. On that point, I agree with @jimmy_wales [image]

• @basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x

  The Grokipedia page on e/acc is the best one I've seen so far on our movement. Amazing.

• @luismbat Luis Batalha on x

  Here's a fun exercise: pick a big topic and read through the “Edits” on Grokipedia. For example, Wikipedia claimed a Type I civilization uses ~10²⁶ W instead of ~10¹⁶ W. Surprising how many long-standing mistakes like this there are. [image]

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  How to fix mistakes in Grokipedia

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Anyone know the methodology for creating Grokipedia? Grokipedia doesn't. [image]

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Yes, teams can just build things. This is incredible. @elonmusk and @grok and team. https://grokipedia.com/

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Is Grokipedia really “better” than Wikipedia if it leaves out the fact that five people died in the aftermath?

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Definitely different, but one explains the limits on the science and the other brushes over them. 1984 is here. He who writes the encyclopedia controls the narrative.

• @amxfreeze @amxfreeze on x

  Grokipedia stays updated with real-time edits powered by Grok Automated fact-checks happen with no human bias and no errors Grok pursues the Truth so you get the facts [image]

• @lsanger Larry Sanger on x

  Wikipedia, in light of a strong launch from Grokipedia, you'd better get your house in order—or you'll go the way of the Sears catalog. Are you listening yet? https://larrysanger.org/...

• @grummz @grummz on x

  Just browsing multiple topics on Grokipedia...everything controversial. It's so much more fair than Wikipedia. No...wait...it wipes Wikipedia on the floor and stomps on it. Wikipedia's key flaw is that it only allows “approved sources” which are all controlled and ideologically

• @kettlebelldan Dan on x

  Goodbye Wikipedia 👋 Hello Grokipedia! [image]

• @samsheffer Sam Sheffer on x

  better than wikipedia good job grok [image]

• @chamath Chamath Palihapitiya on x

  Go search for your favorite topics. This is a really good start and, imo, almost equal to Wikipedia already on the topics covered. This will be obviously better than Wikipedia within a year...

• @mfnrich @mfnrich on x

  @elonmusk Grokipedia is better. Below is a snapshot comparison of how Grokipedia and Wikipedia cover January 6th: [image]

• @basil_tgmd @basil_tgmd on x

  Grokipedia describes Tommy Robinson as a British activist and citizen journalist Wikipedia describes him as a far right activist Grokipedia already steamrolling through the lies 🫡 [image]

• @eevblog Dave Jones on x

  Grokipedia rips off directly from Wikipedia, word for word, formatting, structure, the whole thing. [image]

• @brianroemmele Brian Roemmele on x

  BOOOOOOOM! Wow, wow! Testing Grokipedia! It is absolutely brilliant and will only get better. Bye, bye Wikipedia—don't let the door hit you on the way out. Test it now: https://grokipedia.com/ [image]

• @waytoomuchbeer Jack Beers on x

  @elonmusk If you put a page from Grokipedia through Grok and asked for the flaws and logical fallacies in the page, it will give you ALL of the flaws. This is embarrassing. [image]

• @ramintahbaz Ramin Tahbaz on x

  If you're wondering what the Grokipedia experience is like [video]

• @brunojnavarro Bruno J. Navarro on bluesky

  The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

• @jwharris Jennifer Harris on bluesky

  “A Grokipedia page on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol blended factual accounts of the event with suggestions that Democrats and the mainstream media had exaggerated both its severity and President Donald Trump's culpability.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...

• @seanhollister Sean Hollister on bluesky

  Eight years after the right coined “alternative facts,” Elon Musk has given them an alternative encyclopedia, one that claims to purge bias while doing the opposite on topics like “climate change.”  —  Oh, and it's straight-up copying more vanilla Wikipedia entries.  —  www.theve…

• @cuthrell.com Jay Cuthrell on bluesky

  Come for the footer.  Stay for the selective omissions.  —  “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”  —  www.techmeme.com/251027/p41#a...

• @jeremyfcohen Jeremy Cohen on bluesky

  Here is the Grokipedia entry on “University” [embedded post]

• @justinhendrix Justin Hendrix on bluesky

  “Elon Musk on Monday launched an early version of Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia written by AI that the billionaire has touted as a less biased alternative to the venerable online resource Wikipedia.”  —  Sigh.

• @davidingram David Ingram on bluesky

  True to form, Wikipedia already has an entry on Grokipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(c...  “Some articles are nearly identical to their Wikipedia entries...”

• @rmac Ryan Mac on bluesky

  Interestingly, Grokipedia does make a mention of Musk's “pedo guy” controversy and lawsuit.  Musk ultimately prevailed in that case following a trial for defamation.  —  Wikipedia does not mention this episode.  [image]

• @nerdjpg.com @nerdjpg.com on bluesky

  Unsurprisingly, a significant portion of the sources utilized on Grokipedia for pages related to socialist topics are from the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Victims of Communism Foundation etc

• @rmac Ryan Mac on bluesky

  Wikipedia has a whole entry on Musk's salute at Trump's second inauguration and how people compared it to a Nazi salute.  —  Grokipedia does not address it at all.  [image]

• @rmac Ryan Mac on bluesky

  With the launch of xAI's Grokipedia, it's fascinating comparing Elon Musk's Wikipedia entry with his Grokipedia entry.  —  On COVID, Grokipedia (left) only mentions his donations.  On Wiki, it mentions his misinformation and defying of lockdowns.  [images]

• @niedermeyer.online @niedermeyer.online on bluesky

  grokipedia claimed elon musk lifts weights and then completely crashed out, so pretty much exactly hitting my expectations for day one [embedded post]

• @milesklee @milesklee on bluesky

  Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds [image]

• @ricmac@mastodon.social Richard MacManus on mastodon

  I know people will be piling on about Grokipedia, but hilariously its definition of Web 2.0 seems to be much better than Wikipedia's.  On Grokipedia's page, there's a great description of misinformation on platforms like X and Facebook.  Wikipedia does not mention any of that.  —…

• @nixCraft@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social on mastodon

  Grokipedia (AI written Wiki), an Elon Musk project, includes content that has been copied from Wikipedia, often noting that the pages are ‘adapted’ from the source.  How is this “massive improvement” over Wikipedia when some pages are almost identical word-for-word, line-for-line…

• r/wikipedia r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

• r/skeptic r on reddit

  Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

• r/inthenews r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

• r/technology r on reddit

  Elon Musk's Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages

• r/DePi r on reddit

  Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival

• @cherthedev Cher Scarlett on x

  An encyclopedia should cite its sources, not find sources that support to some degree the content it already contains. This is the primary issue with an encyclopedia generated by AI. The sources are embedded in its LLM's corpus, unidentified.

• @ianpatterson.com Ian on bluesky

  There should be some kind of metric published for AI models: the degree to which they're just a compressed version of key reference works, like Wikipedia.  In some ways they are just a giant zip file with fast non linear retrieval.  —  bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post]

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  lol, yup.  They're just using AI to copy Wikipedia and then editing all the factual stuff that points out the right wing movement is racist, ignorant, and unpopular

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  reality is very upsetting to the right wing so they are spending a ton of time and money building an alternate reality safe space to delude themselves into believing they aren't unpopular assholes [embedded post]

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  the great irony is they're probably using AI trained on Wikipedia then editing each entry piecemeal as they get irrationally butthurt over whatever the latest daily grievance is that rustled their perpetual victimization complex

• @chrisdeleon @chrisdeleon on bluesky

  about time we got something that's an exact copy of wikipedia but with some specific lies thrown in to help elon musk