This seems like an old article, but probably still true today

What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia. It seems way easier than continually telling his 200MM+ followers how great a deeply broken product is.

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femiagbabiaka 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is not possible to make a good version of Grokipedia while satisfying the requirements of its owner, namely to launder ultra-right viewpoints[1].

1: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-...

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UniverseHacker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

“Reality has a well known liberal bias” -Stephen Colbert

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boxerab an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

can you a) define "ultra-right" viewpoints and b) give some references for these views on Grokipedia ?

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femiagbabiaka 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

I cited an article in my comment to back up my claims. The paper it references is publicly available and goes into more detail. Is that not enough?

	▲	boxerab 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		this laughable article cites luminaries such as unnamed "experts" and a computer science grad student. So, no, this is not enough - can you yourself define what you mean by "ultra-right" viewpoints ?

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tbrownaw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia.

The way to make your MVP less shitty is to throw time and money at iterating it. Which I understand is what's happening.

I'm sure in a few years it'll either be quite good, or have clearly highlighted some fundamental limitations of language models as a class.

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slashdave 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That would require careful planning, introspection, and humility.

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exasperaited an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Could it be, could it possibly be, because he’s not an honest broker but a deeply wounded, emotionally immature malignant narcissist who needs the world to conform to his darkest viewpoints so that he can tell himself that he is not the imperfect person he knows himself to be?

	▲	cindyllm an hour ago \| parent [-]
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zzzeek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What would a "good" version be ?

Start putting real facts into a site and before you know it you're "woke" again with such untruths as Slavery was Bad, Biden won the 2020 Election and of course Full Self Driving is Impossible without Lidar

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venturecruelty 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seriously. My Christmas wish is for everyone to understand that Grokipedia was not created in good faith, by someone who wants free and open knowledge to flourish.

	▲	Geezus_42 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		People still tune in to watch Alex Jones. I wouldn't hold my breath.

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Levitz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>Start putting real facts into a site and before you know it you're "woke" again

This is precisely the problem that is being arrogantly failing to be addressed by grokipedia. This idea that knowledge naturally leans ideologically left and that as such it's not only natural, but even beneficial that there is widespread left wing bias.