• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    Ultimately, this could highlight the incredibly high value of wikipedia as a common ressource, and might lead to better things there.

    Maybe.

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      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.

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          Let’s hope this time it’ll be like that, and not like Gamergate, when far-right conservatives convinced a generation worth of gamers that they’re not for-censorship, because they missed the times of calling blacks the N-word.

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        Effect vs affect: Use ‘impact’ instead of having to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.

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          They don’t mean the same thing. Effect means to actively change something. Affect means to have passively receive a change.

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            Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.

            Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the “context difference”, just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.

            Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what’s being discussed anyways.

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      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

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      nah most of the time he just overpromises… rarely has he delivered anything at all, and when he does it’s such a clusterfuck that the word underdeliver feels super generous.

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      Not really.

      Remember that Elmo just lies his ass off almost all the time.

      Over promises and under delivery are such extreme understatements with him, almost everything bhe says is just pure imaginary bullshit

      Lying his ass off literally is the only thing he does well, it made Tesla stocks balloon to being overvalued somewhere in 10-100 times their actual value

      Remember hyperloop, that project that even high schoolers could identify as absolutely dumb? Billions and billions in investment money has been wasted on absolute bullshit that will never work.

      But what about SpaceX, I hear you type?

      Remember how we’d land on Mars in 2018, now 7-8 years ago? Yeah, Elmo is currently at about 1% of that particular promise. Again, it’s not under delivery, it’s just actual plain bullshit

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        Hyperloop, Neuralink, Tesla Semi, FSD, Mars lander, Roadster, Boring company…But we sent Elizabeth Holmes to jail.

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        Speaking of SpaceX, ISRO was able to come up with a design of a Reusable-launch vehicle in half the price & did it way before them

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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.

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    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.

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      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!

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    The first thing I noticed about grokipedia is that it doesn’t do a good job at qualifying the strength of sources.

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    How long until AI models start training off Grokipedia, and we have the biggest game of hallucination telephone?

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    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.