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Wikipedia isn't even the only one online. The Encyclopaedia Britannica still exists.
Tim Bray on Grokipedia
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To play devil's advocate: Grok has historically actually been one of the biggest debunkers of right-wing misinformation and conspiracy theories on Twitter, contrary to popular conception. Elon keeps trying to tweak its system prompt to make it less effective at that, but Grokipedia was worth an initial look from me out of curiosity. It took me 10 seconds to realize it was ideologically-motivated garbage and significa…
The problem of debunking right-wing misinformation is that it doesn't seem to matter. The consumers of that misinformation want it and those of us who think it's bad for society already know that its garbage. It feels like we've reached Peak Stupidity but it's clear it can (and likely will) get much worse with AI videos.
One of the rallying cries of the right is "facts don't care about your feelings", but it's interesting how the facts either get distorted or ignored.
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The problem of debunking right-wing misinformation is that it doesn't seem to matter. The consumers of that misinformation want it and those of us who think it's bad for society already know that its garbage. It feels like we've reached Peak Stupidity but it's clear it can (and likely will) get much worse with AI videos.
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Please. What common conspiracy theories that have actual political impact have water carried by left-wing politicians?
Here's a short list of RW conspiracy theories with real life political consequences:
- Antivax conspiracies
- Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States ("birther" conspiracy)
- Biden / Ukraine conspiracy theory
- The litany of Covid-19 conspiracy theories
- The "deep state" conspiracy theory
- Sarah Palin's "death panels" conspiracy theory
- Sandy Hook was fake
- 2020 Election Fraud
- Trump / Ukraine conspiracy theory
- QAnon
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Grokipedia only seems to solve astroturfing by ramping gatekeeping up to 11, not allowing anyone outside of xAI to directly influence content or policy, or even observe the decision making processes that go into it. It stands to reason that you can't astroturf a brick wall.
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What's insane is that you think that this attention was not given to Wikipedia and Bluesky...
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#49"Wikipedia, in my mind, has two main purposes: A quick visit to find out the basics about some city or person or plant or whatever, or a deep-dive to find out what we really know about genetic linkages to autism or Bach’s relationship with Frederick the Great or whatever."
Completely agree with the first purpose but would never use wikipedia for the second purpose. Its only good at basics and cannot handle complex information well.
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Not even being snarky, but I can't recall a single good idea he had.
Perhaps I'm working of a false narrative, but SpaceX and the methodology it uses (simplify everything and fail fast) seems to be coming directly from Elon. He's a horrible human being but has had a couple worthy ideas.
I initially believed his early videos about how he applies the scientific process, with a spreadsheet of the BOM, optimising for specific questions and failing early and all that.
Given his later attitude when it came to careful thought, I'm no longer under the impression that these earlier expositions were his ideas at all. I suspect he got it from the engineers and used it to burnish his image. I know that certain companies, e.g Apple, Dyson, etc have a culture of "all ideas came from the big man at the top, no matter who thought of it."