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See all the heavily biased content on the Joe Biden and Donald Trump articles? Why not start there? Try to see if you can contribute a more neutral voice. My
by echelon 11mo ago
See all the heavily biased content on the Joe Biden and Donald Trump articles?
Why not start there? Try to see if you can contribute a more neutral voice.
My guess is that the tone of these articles we see now is only the beginning. This thing is only a month old.
Then this will become the source of truth in the LLMs.
I cannot believe they've gone so against the spirit of contributors and that there's no legal recourse to stop this.
Open source and open content didn't bare enough fangs. It shouldn't have allowed profit.
We build open source for big tech. They use it (Linux, Redis, Elasticsearch, Python, etc.) to profit, keep us from owning the machines and systems (AWS) that concentrate and mechanize that profit. They then corral our labor, lay off, and move jobs overseas.
They expand into every industry and inject massive amounts of money to destabilize the incumbents. We literally just watched them dismantle the entire US film industry in just three years and swallow it whole. Tech is picking the bones dry.
And now it's happening with the media we create too.
If the pendulum of power swings, we MUST dismantle these companies. And we can't be slow like Lina Khan. It must be fast and furious like Project 2025.
We also need to weaponize our open source licenses.
- qcnguy 11mo agoAgainst the spirit of the contributors? You know Wikipedia's founders have heavily criticized Wikipedia's blatant political biases, right? Having LLMs edit encyclopedias, moderate forums and do everything else we rely on user moderation for today is the way of the future. They can be much fairer, more predictable, controllable and put you less at the mercy of the army of whackjobs that end up controlling sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. Musk is once again at the forefront of this. The big question is cost. Volunteers work for "free" (often sadly, "free" means in return for the ability to manipulate the public discourse). But GPUs do not, and Grokipedia has no ads.
- olelele 11mo ago"Can be" does a lot of heavy lifting here. LLMs have not proven their reliability anywhere afaik.
- cosmicgadget 11mo agoIt is weird to call Wikipedia editors "an army of whackjobs" in the same paragraph as praising Elon for his vision in bringing hallucinated truth to the masses.
- tim333 11mo agoI'm a contributor and I'm fine with it. I believe in creative commons and anyone can do what they want. I think people will ignore Musk's thing.
- Timon3 11mo agoPeople might - but will AIs? Personally, I think the chance of all of "Grokipedia" being filtered from all AI datasets & search queries is fairly small.