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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 56 points 4 days ago

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

Fuck you.

Signed,

a physicist

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, Conservapedia but more banal?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 4 days 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 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Stern@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

Airlock can be a verb.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 4 days ago

@Stern @etherphon

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

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does if you're accelerating / decelerating.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

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

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

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

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago

Because xpedia is too close to another company name.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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