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.
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So set the VPN to Iran so it looks like it's only popular with 'ayrab terrorists' to take always his talking point?
Thats a good idea.
They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt
their
POSSESSIVE PRONOUN!
Elon Musk NEVER creates anything very useful as of now
Elon Musk NEVER creates.
I mean basically it's "Conservapedia but it takes itself seriously".
The first thing I noticed about grokipedia is that it doesn't do a good job at qualifying the strength of sources.
That was an intentional design choice no?
References
- ^ Trust me, bro
I looked a few things up... and you aren't wrong. It relies on primary sources way too much.
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.
One key difference: Conservapedia was young earth creationist, Grok is not. That amount of difference unfortunately enough to convince a lot of average Joes of credibility.
Conservatives will use the nazipedia and everyone else will mock them for it
Let's hope this time it'll be like that, and not like Gamergate, when far-right conservatives convinced a generation worth of gamers that they're not for-censorship, because they missed the times of calling blacks the N-word.
They might not need it to last longer than that.
This is a takeover.
Affect
Effect vs affect: Use 'impact' instead of having to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.
They don't mean the same thing. Effect means to actively change something. Affect means to have passively receive a change.
Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.
Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the "context difference", just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.
Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what's being discussed anyways.
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Not to sure about the latter part.
Elmo will be bankrupt in not too much time but for the moment he has pockets so deep he single handedly could fund wikipedia for the next millenia. For as long as he isn't bankrupt and alive, that turd will be around
It's been fun watching Elon go from space Jesus to shorthand for any billionaire vanity project that will amount to nothing.
Anyone who knew much about space knew that was nonsense from the start, as colonizing a subantarctic volcano is literally more practical than colonizing Mars.
And that's assuming paradigm shifts in spaceflight. Turns out, they did not materialize at all. With SABRE air-breathing engines and Virgin-style stratolaunches dead, things actually went way worse than I expected years ago.
Don't get me wrong. SpaceX is great, Starship is cool, research in space is awesome. But ever since I've first read Musk's public thoughts, he struck me as 'not scientifically grounded,' and I wondered how that incongruity would shake out.
TL;DR: Truth never mattered, and it still doesn't :(
a powerful man with a vision can be a great thing. until it isn't.
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.
If it doesn't do anything useful, I don't think any amount of shoving in front of people is going to amount to much uptake beyond some cursory fiddling to determine its uselessness.
People hand out flyers to every passerby too, and nearly all of those end up in the nearest trash bin.
Facebook, Twitter, and the general burning of the 'old' internet suggest otherwise.
Those caught on because they're basically addictive drugs. Furthermore, while it may be hard to remember at this late stage of the game, those services did have genuine value to some users at the beginning. Today's versions of those products have gone through countless iterations since then, each one reducing value to the end-user and increasing value to the data buyers and advertisers, like the proverbial "slowly boiling the frog".
How long until AI models start training off Grokipedia, and we have the biggest game of hallucination telephone?
Ultimately, this could highlight the incredibly high value of wikipedia as a common ressource, and might lead to better things there.
Maybe.
Awww... I wish I had that level of optimism.
A collection of hallucinations sounds more like a bad piece of comedy
It will burst into flames, like his cars
All cars can catch fire, some more often, others more intensely. Doesn't matter if it's a swastikar or not.
Instead of pitting EVs against ICE, let's all push to reduce car dependence and instead encourage the development of public transit!
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