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points by charcircuit 2 days ago | 0 comments

Grokipedia serves as an existence proof that it is possible.

I don't think anyone's arguing against whether or not it's possible, the question is whether it's valuable, correct, and A Good Thing.

I have access to a number of LLMs and can order it to build me a wiki site with all knowledge of the world, just like everyone else with the same access. What would make mine any more valuable or better than another?

[–] adsharma 2 days ago

Grokipedia's mistake is that it generates text statically instead of dynamically from a machine curated data structure in latent space.

Latentpedia starts from wikidata, not Wikipedia.

[–] boxed 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia#:~:text=that%20arti... It literally states itself on the frontpage that it's bad.

Funny though, as that admission of error makes it more reliable than if it tried to hide this fact.

[–] MetalBreaksAndB 2 days ago

Grokipedia lacks the fundamental quality that makes WP great, collaboration.

[–] charcircuit 2 days ago

Saying there is no collaboration is like saying multiple people on a software project can't collaborate with Claude Code because it's really just Claude writing the code.

[–] MetalBreaksAndB 17 hours ago

There's no on-platform way of communicating to other editors and I don't think you get responses from the site when you report errors. It's like saying multiple people on a software project can't collaborate with Claude Code because they're all just yelling at a single claude with no responses from claude or communication between people.

[–] tomaskafka 2 days ago

Funny, I wanted to mention grokipedia as an example of why a pile of slop that’s subtly wrong about many details is a bad idea.

[–] charcircuit 2 days ago

So is Wikipedia, but with grokipedia you can at least correct it even if there is not a journalist pointing out the obvious.

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago

Does Grokipedia even accept contributions that don't align with Musk's political bias?

[–] charcircuit 1 day ago

You are free to give any suggestion that you want.