Grokipedia >> Wikipedia.
Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop
What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success. Musk announced the launch of Grokipedia "version 0.1" on X Monday evening, qualifying …
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 16:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
If you right shift Grokipedia by Wikipedia as you did in your post because you don't quite know your mathematical symbols you'll get 0 because Grokipedia is a very small number, almost but not quite as small as Musk's... time spent studying before dropping out of university (2), and Wikipedia is a far bigger number.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 00:22 GMT Anonymous Coward
Define what a Nazi is please
Could start with someone who espouses some or all of the agenda of the historical National Socialist German Workers Party or fascism more generally.
Given the current state of the US and elsewhere it has probably reached the point where it is easier to declare who is not a "NAZI."
Interestingly Wiki has this nugget:
"The term "nazi" had been in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or peasant. It characterised an awkward, clumsy person, a yokel." (Ultimately derived from the common Bavarian name Igna(t)z. )
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 18:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
> "Grokipedia >> Wikipedia."
That Beast666 is a well-established (and tolerated) troll account here isn't really in doubt.
However, in cases like this- and the vast bulk of what Beast666 posts- it's also obvious that the actual trolling is as much- if not more- in how easily they can provoke a response with even the most intentionally transparent, low rent and low effort attempts such as this one.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 12:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
The transparent low effort is intentional and kind of the point with some trolls, that one included.
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 16:59 GMT steelpillow
ROTFL
Not the first to get the hump over Wikipedia's editorial practices and fire up an aspirational "better than" to show how it should be done, won't be the last. The few that don't soon fade away just barely sputter on in the background.
It's all down to the open and democratic consensus-building which lies at the heart of the Wikipedia ethos - and hence the way the MediaWiki software works.
It's surprising how many people cannot bear the idea of losing editorial control, passionately believe that Wikipedia "ought" to say what they want it to say, and regard us Wikipedians as the attached icon. I tell them to go away and build their own, which makes them hate me even more.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 12:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
The usual suspects
Ever noticed that with certain types of post, it's not just that you'll consistently get two or three downvotes regardless of the (typically much larger) number of upvotes?
It's that those downvotes all tend to occur very soon after you've posted, often outnumbering the number of upvotes early on before those- with their slower but more consistent pattern- tend to overtake them.
It's also noticeable that if you contribute to an older discussion, which it's apparent many "regular" users have moved on from, you still tend to get that same number of downvotes regardless of the reduced amount of upvotes in general.
Hmm.
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 23:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Moscow
"Had occasion to look up the pinout for a CF card this afternoon. The first hit was from a .ru site; its representation is the mirror image of every other pinout that I found..."
It would be, wouldn't it ? They have to look at it from the other side. :)
Seriously though it is surprising how much really old SunOS/Solaris stuff is/was only found on old .su or .ru sites. A few years ago I wanted the source or image of the boot floppy for Solaris 2.6 x86 - found both on some obscure .ru institution's neglected website — curiously the boot image was built with masm and msc (ie under msdos.)
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 17:36 GMT ADJB
Interesting.... The BBC has the same story running on it's main news page which says more or less the opposite of this one. To be honest it reads more like a press release from Musk. I'm sure they will have checked the sources and passed it by it's fact checking team before publishing......
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 22:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
Yeah, there's one on BBC Science Focus that pretty much agrees with this one though (from a different angle).
Bottom line to me is: who needs MechaHitlerPedia? (what audience could it possibly be intended for?)
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 22:00 GMT John Brown (no body)
Well, you can sort of see Musks point if you put yourself in his very far right shoes. By definition, *everything" is left of his position and the centrist middle ground is "far left" from way over there -------------------->>>>>>>>>>>> </sarc> (Tag just to make it clear for the hard of thinking :-))
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 19:03 GMT Claude Yeller
How the rich get rich
"Unfortunately for Musk, it's hard to be better than Wikipedia when many of its 885,279 articles (around 12 percent of the English language Wikipedia's 7.08 million) are derived directly from Wikipedia pages. "
That's how you get rich: Let others do the work and reap the benefits to keep for yourself.
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Tuesday 28th October 2025 20:18 GMT 45RPM
I hope that democracy in America isn’t so irredeemably broken that MAGA remains in power forever more. I fear it might be. But, if democracy does still mean something in the US…
I hope that the Democrats grow a spine, rebalance the Supreme Court to represent the people, and then charge the perpetrators of the crimes being committed against American people by the likes of Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, the televangelists and the Christian ‘right’ and their enablers. Then sentence them promptly, no hanging around, and confiscate their wealth - using it to repair the damage to the US.
If these arseholes are as rich as they claim to be then a lot of people could be fed, a lot of medical bills could be paid, a lot of schools could be built, with the confiscated loot.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 08:55 GMT lglethal
Sorry, but as much as I wish it would happen, it's not going to, and it comes down to, first and foremost, the American people.
Ask pretty much any American of any creed, denomination, or political affiliation, if they would willing pay higher taxes in order to have a functioning health care system and you will end up deaf from the screech of "NOOOO!!!!!", a screech so loud it would be audible from Orbit. It is a fundamental principle from all Americans that Taxes are too high, despite paying by far the lowest tax rate in the Western Hemisphere. Ask them if the Tax dodging and evasion of the rich is acceptable, and most will express admiration and a sly wish that they could afford the same accountants to reduce their taxes. The mentality is what is broken...
There are so many other broken systems in the US, but because of the belief in American Exceptionalism, any thought of ditching them and replacing them with a working system inspired by another nation is anathema to the national consciousness.
Unfortunately, until the mentality of the American People changes, I dont see anything but more of the same regardless of which stripe of Political America is in power...
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Thursday 30th October 2025 03:14 GMT Jamesit
"Ask pretty much any American of any creed, denomination, or political affiliation, if they would willing pay higher taxes in order to have a functioning health care system and you will end up deaf from the screech of "NOOOO!!!!!","
No higher taxes are needed, the USA spends more per capita on healthcare than Canada and delivers less due to the for profit health care industry. Ending the for profit model would do a lot to lower costs and save lives.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 00:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
What can anyone say about Musk that hasn't been said ?
The creature is abomination.
Unfortunately in with an equally abominable crowd within a marginally less abominable nation.
The whole boiling could do the planet a big favour by permanently shoving their collective head up their collective arse and taking a deep breath.†
† at least then the shit would flowing the other way for a change.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 03:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: “left-wing bias”
and anything with even a shred of humanity or decency is "woke" or "wokety woke nonsense"
The uk version tends to be of the bigoted and bullying female persuasion, where they screech constantly about outdated and overly simplified 50 year old primary or secondary school textbooks and who each frequently resort to several hundred/thousand sockpuppet accounts to bully / attempt to silence any critical voice and particularly any criticism from female academics who dare to disagree with the bigots and said academics who at a postgraduate / doctoral level study cellular and chromosomal biology or research social structures etc over quite extensive periods of history.
Where the bigots drape themselves in white, green and purple and act no different to Pankhurst's mob of semi literate zealots, thugs, loudmouths and bullies, where if the targets of their abuse were any other protected group or if they were anything other than well financed white women, then the police would have no qualms about putting them in cuffs, nor would they get away with claiming bigotry is "protected philosophical belief" and the courts rightfully would have thrown the book at them and tossed the key away
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 22:07 GMT John Brown (no body)
I must admit, his use of Grok seems to be at odds with what Grok actually means. It's both a simple and complex thing, and quite different from Musks use of a geeky SF concept picked up by the IT crowd to make himself sound "cool". For those who know, it's just make him seem even more out of touch than ever.
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 16:17 GMT graeme leggett
Re: Already more accurate
From "Covid-19 pandemic" on Grokipedia for your consideration
"Federal agencies coordinated with platforms through frequent communications, establishing a censorship apparatus that targeted dissenting scientific views. In the case of Missouri v. Biden (later Murthy v. Missouri), a federal district court found evidence of a "far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign" by officials from the White House, CDC, and FBI, who coerced platforms to suppress content on COVID-19 topics including election integrity ties and vaccine skepticism; the Fifth Circuit affirmed this as likely violating the First Amendment by treating platforms as government proxies, though the Supreme Court dismissed the case on standing grounds in June 2024.
Specific examples include the suppression of the Great Barrington Declaration, a October 2020 proposal by epidemiologists from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford advocating focused protection over broad lockdowns, which NIH Director Francis Collins privately urged colleagues to "take down" via media campaigns labeling it fringe, resulting in Google downranking its website and limited academic discourse. The lab leak theory faced similar treatment: platforms like Facebook banned claims of a man-made virus origin until May 2021, despite early evidence from Wuhan lab safety lapses, with U.S. officials including Anthony Fauci coordinating efforts to discredit it as a conspiracy, as revealed in congressional hearings"
By the way, all the references for the article are just bare urls, such as "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7458444/" which is "Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 through recombination and strong purifying selection" Sci Adv2020 Jul 1;6(27):eabb9153. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb9153
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Wednesday 29th October 2025 16:20 GMT graeme leggett
Re: Already more accurate
And, I think readers can figure which online 'pedia is which here:
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007.
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George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020
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Thursday 30th October 2025 21:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Already more accurate
Diff AC here.
Watching from the UK the trial didn't strike me as being very fair. Seemed a certain verdict was required for race relations and that verdict was delivered. The policeman looked to have done his job correctly then got thrown to the wolves to appease certain liberal and black outrage.
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