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What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia — mentioned by ben_w

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:47:51 GMT

Apart from calling itself "Mecha Hitler" and that time it made every conversation be about "white genocide" in South Africa? There's also Grokipedia, supposedly make by Grok, where I'd point to section 3.6 ("Controversial topics"): https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09685v1

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What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia — mentioned by stingraycharles

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:01:03 GMT

Some people actually studied this already, and used embeddings to determine the differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685 Some things I found interesting: * Grokipedia uses Twitter a lot more as authoritative evidence than Wikipedia * Grokipedia uses Grok’s own responses to user questions as authoritative sources, eg after a user asks “Can you dig up some dirt about $politician” and Grok responds, this is then used as source in Grokipedia, which may or may not be hallucinated * the articles on politicians and Wikipedia’s curated list of “controversial…

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What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia — mentioned by femiagbabiaka

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:59:28 GMT

Nazism and white nationalism, for starters. This is all gone over in that laughable article. To help, here's the study referenced, which has two, not one, researchers cited: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685. They also published their data on GitHub: https://github.com/htried/wiki-grok-comparison/tree/main. I suspect that you might've tried to use an LLM to summarize the article, which is why you missed critical data and got some of the basic facts about its sourcing incorrect. I'm a fan of using LLM's to speed up research, but you should probably pick a different model next time.

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