Never worry about commie crap like public citations getting in the way of misinformation rhetoric again! (Because the LLM trained on fuckin twitter made it up lmao)

On the flipside for an actually cool non-cucked integration of LLMs with wikipedia check out this post on the localllama where the person shares their project of using a local private llm to search through a local kiwix server instance of wikipedia. https://piefed.social/post/1333130

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[–] [S] 84 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    What's with his obession with the name "grok" though? Sounds like the sound frog made

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  • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's from a book I love, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. The word is the Martian term for fully understanding something.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's really funny. He steals the name Tesla and Grok and when he tries to come up with his own names, we get "X" and "X Æ A-Xii"

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.

    and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property..

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I do not sense a wrongness in your post so I will not disappear you. :)

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What an obscure reach to make.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    You got the original explanation, but grok was taken up by computer nerds way back in the day. It's not merely understanding a thing, in the book or the slang. To grok means to completely wrap your head around the subject, not merely surface level understanding, really feel it down deep.

    As to Musk's obsession? He wants to be seen as the cool kid, the smart hacker, the guy who groks what's really going on.

    Honestly it's a great name for a search engine or AI. And now he's actively ruining it like everything else he touches.

    BTW, Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent book. I laugh when people call Heinlein a fascist for writing Starship Troopers. "So, how about that hippie book?" Heinlein's books examine various government and economic systems, "What if it worked this way?"

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Funny you say that. In Serbia, they say the noise a pig makes is "grok". My wife burst out laughing when she found out the name of Elon's AI.

    Imagine some Saudi prince launches an AI called Oink, and then sets up Oinkepedia

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I always assumed Grok was chosen to hint as his technology background. For which "grok" is a popular term used for reading and understanding, with code in particular.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    It's a Heinlein - "stranger in a strange land" concept. It sort of spread out in nerdery from there where it meant you know and you're in the know.

    To know is to understand fully sort of. He's doing the literal opposite which is a bit 1984 of him and is also likely another book he's read and didn't understand or at least had pretended to have read.

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    [–] 52 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Rather ironic given that wikipedia makes a massive portion of LLM training corpus

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not to mention most Grokipedia pages are straight copied from Wikipedia!

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't there used to be conservapedia that was just Wikipedia but edited to match their imagined reality?

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    ... I really hoped that this wasn't a thing, but im not surprised in the least.

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    Its just fucking painful, man.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Funny how the "voting irregularities" magically disappeared when he won.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago*

    If you have to create a wikipedia alternative to stop being fact checked, then maybe you are just fuckin wrong.

    Billionaires: "No, No.. I can't be wrong. I'm Rich! I'll create a microcosm of information that warps reality to make sure I'm right!"

    Conservapedia: Wait..thats what I was for.. what about me?!

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  • [+] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So why didn't Conservapedia take off? If it's unbiased truth, no liberal agenda, it should have blown Wikipedia out of the water a decade ago. Funny that.

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    "We have compiled the largest website full of absolute bullshit and stupidity to compete against the largest compendium of real human knowledge."

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    That dipshit really doesn't have any understanding of what the word grok actually means.

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    [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    "Elon invented the airplane."

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  • [+] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)
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