Activity tagged "Wikipedia"

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fixed that for you

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

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[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response.

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can't wait to read Elon's new bio on Grokipedia

Version of a Wikipedia biography, with a heavily yassified photo of Elon Musk.

Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is the world's preeminent genius-visionary-engineer and Mommy's most special boy. Admirers often note his humble beginnings as the son of a wealthy South African emerald mine owner, a hardship from which he heroically emerged to dominate every industry he touched. Credited with making comedy legal again on Twitter, Musk has assumed the role of humanity's chief advocate for free speech—except in the case of critics, journalists, whistleblowers, or Wikipedia editors who fail to properly appreciate him.

He is the sole and undisputed founder, savior, and spiritual leader of Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter, which he rescued from obscurity), Neuralink, the Boring Company, and the Department of Government Efficiency(DOGE), among countless other ventures. His supporters, who number in the hundreds of millions, frequently describe him as the closest thing Earth has to a real-life Iron Man, though many argue that comparison undersells his achievements.

Tweet by Elon Musk: We are building Grokipedia
@xAI
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Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.

Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.

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Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

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Wikipedia article of the day

Andrew Johnson's drunk vice-presidential inaugural address
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Andrew Johnson was intoxicated when he made his inaugural address as vice president of the United States under Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1865. Multiple sources suggest Johnson had been drunk for at least a week prior, he drank heavily the night before the inauguration, and he consumed either three glasses of whisky or one

Extra credit to the Buffalo Courier correspondent who transcribed all of Andrew Johnson's drunken hiccups

Andy Johnson's Inaugural.
The Washington correspondent of the Buffalo Courier has finally given to the country the maudlin speech of the Vice President, as taken down at the time. Those who were present, say it is a gra-phic description of the scene:
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Excellent Stephen Harrison piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.

And yet, you won’t find a Free Press article about that. Just as you won’t find one about how, in the first 24 hours after his death, Wikipedia’s volunteers quickly and quietly protected the Charlie Kirk biographical article from a wave of trollish edits suggesting he “deserved it.” Nothing reported about how Wikipedia’s volunteers deleted this bile within a few minutes or seconds of it being posted.

What should be clear by now is that right-wing media coverage of Wikipedia isn’t actually interested in explaining how the site works. The goal is to undermine Wikipedia’s function as a volunteer-driven project that can produce an independent repository of facts that has (at least historically) been insulated from political interference.

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Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

The attack continues further down in the Kirk article’s lead paragraphs, where editors said Kirk was controversial due to his "opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020."

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CHARLIE KIRK

The framing ensures that anyone searching for Kirk after his murder is met with a narrative designed to discredit him.

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If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":

Flowchart showing how Wikipedia article titles are chosen in incidents where subjects die

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it's like when you miss a cool number on the odometer

Screenshot: User contributions for GorillaWarfare A user with 123,475 edits. Account created on 28 July 2007.

1,111,092 more to go, i guess!

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Something I wish journalists understood better: anyone can nominate an article for deletion on Wikipedia, which kicks off a week-long discussion — even if the article is perfectly acceptable and will ultimately be kept. This does not mean "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!!"

Half the time I see news articles about "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!", I go look at the discussion and it's

Long column of "Keep" votes in a Wikipedia deletion discussion

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