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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 135 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'

Or ever create anything (he's just stealing other people's creations, at best)

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 60 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Truly the Thomas Edison of the 21st century.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'll say aw Topsy at my autopsy!

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I'm happy I can use this after reading it yesterday:

The electrocution of Topsy the Elephant was not an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the war of the currents. Edison was never at Luna Park, and the electrocution of Topsy took place ten years after the war of currents.[96] This myth may stem from the fact that the recording of the event was produced by the Edison film company.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_history

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

He thinks he's Nikolai Tesla, but yeah, he's the other guy!

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He's like if Edison and Henry Ford had a baby and it only inherited the worst parts of both.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He is not just strealing other people's creations. He is also giving them incredibly lame names.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Just listened to someone attempt a Freudian analysis on the X that he seems so obsessed with. It was trite.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago

Stealing and enshittifying

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

More like ruining other people's creations, he has the opposite of Midas touch, anything he touches turns to shit