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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 58 points 2 months ago

With Grok, Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics.

Fuck you.

Signed,

a physicist

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics. It replaces partially masked evidences of how legacy media operates, rewriting with complete accurate context that cuts through the BS.

Christ, these people are so fucking stupid. Can't wait to see how Nazi autocomplete solves the problem of induction.

Also, 'fun' fact. The second result for first principles on ddg is a blog post by a self-help guru sucking Musk off so hard you'd think they're being held at gun point.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, Conservapedia but more banal?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Going on the Grok output, I saw: Conservapedia with more uses of the word fuck (it can now use the word fuck), extremely verbose mid insults and weird flirting.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Guillotines don't work in space, that's why billionaires are so obsessed with going there.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

Airlock can be a verb.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 2 months ago

@Stern @etherphon

I’m sure explosive bolts or similar could take the place of gravity if needed.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does if you're accelerating / decelerating.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Make it out of a rail gun for an even more scifi version.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

Because xpedia is too close to another company name.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So... They're going to use the bot trained on wikipedia to rewrite wikipedia. Very much a Pierre Menard type situation.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ah, but they can inject it with all kinds of fascist bullshit.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

For it to be authentic, they need multiple bots arguing on Talk pages and undoing each other's edits.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder where he's going to get sources to cite.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i wonder what else he had go wrong the last period he needed a distraction like this