Cribbing means… ripping off? Copying?
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Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report
(www.rawstory.com)
Yep, did they not call a piece of paper you could copy off of during a test a crib sheet where you went to school? Or has that fallen out of use?
This is the first time I’m hearing it. I’m not exactly young…
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Friendly reminder that not everyone is American or in the anglosphere in general.
I'm not sure that's an American thing as I've never heard of it. I assumed it was a European thing.
Well, a UK thing maybe. In German it would obviously be a Spickzettel and spicken, respectively.
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Yeah, that’s why I asked. I didn’t want to assume
Man Goebbels would be creaming his jeans if he knew of the propaganda potential that Musk and Trump have at their disposal.
Wikipedia is one of the few treasures of the internet. He can go fuck himself
Along with the internet archive
Well I'm going to start my own Wikipedia, with blackjack and hookers!
And ketamine?
I don't understand what exact problem Grokipedia ^[1]^ is even trying to solve.
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[…]"Grokipedia"[…]
The 'problem' where Wikipedia doesn't allow conservatives to edit in propaganda and disinformation as much as they'd like.
Yeah, this exactly. It's really hard to find actually credible sources for many of the rightwing "facts" they want to publish.
What do you mean? There are literally thousands of memes on Facebook, that back up every single claim. How is that not enough for you people? /s
You joke but their goal is to replace every institution with a ministry of truth. They've done it with the media, they're doing it with government institutions that used to be independent and evidence based, and they won't stop until they control all information.
I wonder if they allow Grok itself as a source
They feel it to be true. What more evidence do you need?
So basically what grok was trying to solve.
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There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. It allows YouTube and Twitter as sources. I once saw a sentence like "liberals believe _______" and the source was a tweet with like 40 likes.
Again, that's the point. That's their angle. Dilute everything so you can't tell what is factually accurate, and then you have kids reading this dumb shit and assuming it is true.
Years ago I saw a page on that site about irrational numbers that was pure comedy. Basically they begrudgingly admit that irrational numbers might actually exist (whatever that means for numbers), but heavily implied that it's a liberal plot of some kind stemming from moral relativism or whatever. Just insane ramblings.
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It's gotten to the point where now if someone links to YouTube, I'll think they're more likely to be wrong than if they just asserted it with no link. Because if it was true, it would probably have a better source.
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Reality. They don't like reality.
I don't even get how xitter stays online. Didn't truth social take all their nutters?
Unfortunately the media, celebrities, and corporations still use that crap, so others do too.
never once used it, anyone i knew personally who used it was kind of vapid, self obsessed, or had a crippling only fans addiction.
not my kind of joint, lol.
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Actually mainstream institutions still use it, including politicians. It's beyond me how complacent elected officials are.
It should be called: The truth according to a pedofile South African apartheid Nazi that grifted a trillion dollars from the American taxpayer and should be writing this from the prison general population
Enshittification incarnate
I mean, you can download the whole thing at any time. Anyone can, including nasty cunts.
The tricky part is training it to forget all those pesky facts he doesn't like. Because there's going to be a lot of them.
Billionaires gonna plunder.
The reason why Wikipedia is "woke" is because editors are smart, educated and not paid by massive corporations.
If you want to un-woke it, just get kids to write it, or Republicans (just don't put the Republicans in a room with the kids)
💥 GOT'EM
Can he just stop his bs, let other people run his stuff and he can be at home in a k-hole pissing himself?
What is all this? The paypig paid, now they don't need him anymore. Go home Elton
I posted somewhere almost a year ago he was planning to rewrite Wikipedia using grok and some people commented that I was being paranoid. In before he takes down the official Wikipedia after grok finishes digesting it in a satisfactory manner. I mean the trump government will find some way to ban Wikipedia, I bet China is already lending expertise on how to state-control the American internet
Exactly what Microsoft did with Bing when Google Search took over.
Just call it what it is. Plagiarism.
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