Weiße nationalistische Gesprächsthemen und rassistische Pseudowissenschaft: Willkommen in Elon Musks Grokipedia | Der reichste Mensch der Welt wollte Propaganda aus Wikipedia „säubern“, also erstellte er ein Kompendium rassistischer Desinformation

Some of the details from this investigation:

>The tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally recently launched xAI’s AI-generated Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that Musk has often attacked but that has long been a key feature of the internet.
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>Grokipedia, now with more than 800,000 entries, is generated and, according to a note on each entry, “factchecked” by Grok, xAI’s large language AI model.
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>Beirich, the extremism expert, said: “Musk has become one of the greatest purveyors and proliferators of extremist ideas. Along with X, Grokipedia is just another piece in his arsenal, for laundering white supremacy, bigotry and hatred into the mainstream. Nobody should take Grokipedia seriously.”
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>Richard Cooke, author of the political biography Elon Musk: Dark Star Rising, and also a forthcoming cultural history of Wikipedia, said: “A very important part of understanding the genesis of Grokipedia is Elon Musk holding court on X and having people complain to him that Grok has given them woke answers.”
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>Cooke continued: “I think it’s impossible to separate what is happening with Wikipedia and Grokipedia from what is happening to every other form of knowledge which accompanies a form of accountability to tech oligarchs and people in the Maga movement.”
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>He added: “Grokipedia is a copy of Wikipedia but one where in each instance that Wikipedia disagrees with the richest man in the world, it’s ‘rectified’ so that it’s congruent with them.”

Like a number of other things he’s involved in, he’s taken an existing product and made it objectively worse. Nobody should take the information from this site seriously, but we should be paying attention to those who do. It continues to be disappointing that the promise of the internet back in the 90s, where information could be free and we could all be working collectively to better human understanding, is now almost the exact opposite thanks to people like this.

Wow, this was quite the read.

For anyone familiar with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, this is a list of hardcore „kill all Jews, purge the non-whites“ leaders who have no contributions or importance other than as racist leaders, that Grokipedia doesn’t just whitewash or ignore the flaws of, but instead directly says „They are right and their critics are wrong.“

I still don’t support arresting people for even views such as this, but the fact that the richest person on the entire planet, the richest in the history of the planet, who directly holds political power and is funded by taxpayer dollars, is banning civil rights groups and pushing Nazism into AI models after simply buying social media companies to control their content, SHOULD be the sort of thing a democratic government steps in to stop.

Convenient that he’s gathering negative training data in one place for everyone else.