World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
Entries in Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive concepts and approaches historically associated with scientific racism, a Guardian analysis has found.
The tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally recently launched xAI’s AI-generated Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that Musk has often attacked but that has long been a key feature of the internet.
Grokipedia, now with more than 800,000 entries, is generated and, according to a note on each entry, “factchecked” by Grok, xAI’s large language AI model.
It still makes me LOL that part of the motivation for Schlafly was the CE/BCE thing, British spellings, the fact that Wikipedia doesn’t treat fairy tales like the Great Flood as a given, nor does it assume the divinity of the character of Jesus, and certainly views Young Earth Creationism as the pseudo scientific bullshit that it truly is.
Schlafly thinks that adherence to facts makes Wikipedia “liberal” and six times more left wing than the American mainstream.
He’s trying to outdo his mother in both stupidity and evil.