Wikipedia is dead

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itsyourboypookie
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Elons version is out. Need to see if it has the woke mind virus or not. Grok has its woke moments.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football
Martels Hammer
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How will the NSA and CIA compete?
itsyourboypookie
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Nailed gender fluidity

TommyBrady
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itsyourboypookie said:

Elons version is out. Need to see if it has the woke mind virus or not. Grok has its woke moments.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football


Didn't know we started playing tech again in 2025

Might have as many mistakes as most AI still
TexAgs91
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itsyourboypookie said:

Elons version is out. Need to see if it has the woke mind virus or not. Grok has its woke moments.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football

Right before Elon announced that he would make a wikipedia replacement with grok, I was chatting with Grok and it tried to use Politico and Al Jazeera as sources.
No, I don't care what CNN or Miss NOW said this time
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lobopride
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I just looked up the state of Texas and it returned nothing. obviously it still has a ways to go.
Rapier108
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No where close to being dead.

It will take years before Elon's new thing has any chance to supplant it.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
TAMUallen
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TexAgs91 said:

itsyourboypookie said:

Elons version is out. Need to see if it has the woke mind virus or not. Grok has its woke moments.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football

Right before Elon announced that he would make a wikipedia replacement with grok, I was chatting with Grok and it tried to use Politico and Al Jazeera as sources.


Pretty standard, AI scours media and social media for data to compile. There's still a lot of work left to do until we get any degree of unbiased media as a whole.
TAMUallen
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Rapier108 said:

No where close to being dead.

It will take years before Elon's new thing has any chance to supplant it.


Unlikely, Wikipedia has lost standing prior to AI and the speed at which AI works dwarfs anything human
91AggieLawyer
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lobopride said:

I just looked up the state of Texas and it returned nothing. obviously it still has a ways to go.


Seriously?

Maybe 20 minutes makes a lot of difference:

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas
itsyourboypookie
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Groks nazi book burning mentions the trans dr, wokepedia doesn't.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Nazi_book_burnings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

I'll use grokipedia because I doubt it ever begs for money
TAMUallen
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agsalaska
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Wikipedia is a long way from dead.
TAMUallen
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TexAgs91
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TAMUallen said:

TexAgs91 said:

itsyourboypookie said:

Elons version is out. Need to see if it has the woke mind virus or not. Grok has its woke moments.

https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas_A%26M_Aggies_football

Right before Elon announced that he would make a wikipedia replacement with grok, I was chatting with Grok and it tried to use Politico and Al Jazeera as sources.


Pretty standard, AI scours media and social media for data to compile. There's still a lot of work left to do until we get any degree of unbiased media as a whole.


It's not standard when Elon says his reason for creating this is to combat the woke nonsense in Wikipedia
No, I don't care what CNN or Miss NOW said this time
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fightingfarmer09
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Like everything AI. Terrible generic layout that is difficult to read or skim. Just blocks of words that do not interlink or make it easy for a human to search through. No collapsing off target sections or standardized order of information.

For as terrible as Wikipedia editing is the beauty is that the article format is similar to how a human actually looks for information and how "rabbit holes" and "tunnels" to other topics are in our curious nature.

Wish them the best, but it will not get there unless the AI actually is trained in how a human would organize things.
Mr President Elect
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That is all pretty trivial to implement honestly. It already returns it in article format. Would be nothing to list the headers off to the side as navigation and normalize them to some extent.

This is version 0.1 and Elon admits it is being rushed. Quality of life improvements for it will probably come really quick.
ts5641
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I'm no fan of Wikipedia's politics, but Grokepedia's got a ways to go. Good start though. Hopefully will be politically neutral.
amercer
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Grok gets all it's information from Wikipedia, but sure it's dead
Get Off My Lawn
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First blush looks like they found neutrality on some challenging topics. It'll be interesting to see how corrections are handled over time.

Currently long winded and clunky, but wiki is untrustworthy on any topics the left cares about, so its not hard to beat in those domains…
TexAgs91
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amercer said:

Grok gets all it's information from Wikipedia, but sure it's dead

All?? Do you have a link for that?
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No Spin Ag
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Rapier108 said:

No where close to being dead.

It will take years before Elon's new thing has any chance to supplant it.


True.

Maga will rush to give Grok all their support, and once/if Elon shakes the maga bias from his name, he'll likely start getting others (non maga) to really take a look at choosing Grok over Wikipedia. Until then, though, i think Wikipedia will be continuing as usual.
SMM48
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Will be interesting to track average users daily of both.

ChatGPT in its infancy has about the same aud daily as wiki.
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lobopride said:

I just looked up the state of Texas and it returned nothing. obviously it still has a ways to go.
https://grokipedia.com/page/Texas
YouBet
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Bottom line is that competition is good. The left has had a stranglehold on the "truth" for decades now.

This is a great development that we should all celebrate. Even leftists..if they actually valued truth, but they don't.
infinity ag
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Just get rid of the dark depressing background... jeezus.

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agsalaska said:

Wikipedia is a long way from dead.


That's because lefties still exist.
The Kraken
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What's wrong with Wikipedia?
YouBet
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The Kraken said:

What's wrong with Wikipedia?


Start at top of this thread and read down.
TexasRebel
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TAMUallen said:

Rapier108 said:

No where close to being dead.

It will take years before Elon's new thing has any chance to supplant it.


Unlikely, Wikipedia has lost standing prior to AI and the speed at which AI works dwarfs anything human


The rate at which it's wrong is also quite unprecedented.
infinity ag
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Dream on.

Wikipedia is still the standard. Groko-whatever is good but it will have trouble catching on. First mover advantage. That (and network effects) is why Google+ and other social media failed.
Silent For Too Long
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infinity ag said:

Dream on.

Wikipedia is still the standard. Groko-whatever is good but it will have trouble catching on. First mover advantage. That (and network effects) is why Google+ and other social media failed.


This is a completely different animal. Truth has a transcendent value. The cream will rise to the top.

Also, MySpace and AOL had massive first move advantage.
William Larue Weller
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infinity ag said:

Just get rid of the dark depressing background... jeezus.



Just click on the little moon symbol on the top right and select "light" mode instead.
TexAgs91
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I'm very disappointed that
https://grokipedia.com/page/Earth

Doesn't just say "Mostly harmless"
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eric76
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infinity ag said:

Dream on.

Wikipedia is still the standard. Groko-whatever is good but it will have trouble catching on. First mover advantage. That (and network effects) is why Google+ and other social media failed.

I looked up and compared the entries on each for "chicken fried steak". It seems like they got a head start by copying wikipedia.
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