‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Or ever create anything (he’s just stealing other people’s creations, at best)
He is not just strealing other people’s creations. He is also giving them incredibly lame names.
Just listened to someone attempt a Freudian analysis on the X that he seems so obsessed with. It was trite.
Stealing and enshittifying
More like ruining other people’s creations, he has the opposite of Midas touch, anything he touches turns to shit
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Musk is just Nazi-washing what he stole from Wikipedia, he doesn’t have the base of volunteers and employees to maintain his latest toy. A year from now, it will be gone and forgotten, and we’ll all be shouting at each other to go vote.
Guess Conservapedia wasn’t conservative enough.
No, they already have Metapedia for that.
Yet another horrible thing that apparently exists. Boooo.
He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.
Well this won’t be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I’m pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).
Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”
Amen, it’s nice to see the level-headedness.
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.
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
They might not need it to last longer than that.
This is a takeover.
Affect
It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.
They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.
This is what scares me. The fact that they are doing it at all. It’s providing more spaces for people to shut themselves in completely with the information they want. These fucking desperate bigots will never be satisfied until the entire world reflects their bigoted ass beliefs, but since that will never happen they will fight a civil war for Elon out of sheer ignorant self obsession, instead
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.
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.
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”.
They needed a safe space for their ideas. Less scary stuff like pronouns that make their brains hurt
their
POSSESSIVE PRONOUN!
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.
I mean basically it’s “Conservapedia but it takes itself seriously”.
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
They are going to clone Wikipedia, then use some flimsy excuse to get it shut down under something like “anti conservative bias”. He’ll position Nazipedia to replace it.
Then it will spring up again since the entire database is freely available.
It’s going to be very hard to maintain with a cohesive group of editors if it’s fractured in to different servers with everyone hosting a different copy. The current data may live on, but it’ll be a zombie.
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!
