"Its imperfections are human, visible, and correctable. You can see who edited what, when, and why. Grokipedia is its antithesis. It replaces deliberation with automation, transparency with opacity, and pluralism with personality. Its "editors" are algorithms trained under Musk's direction, generating rewritten entries that emphasize his favorite narratives and downplay those he disputes. It is a masterclass in how not to make an encyclopedia, a warning against confusing speed with wisdom."
"In Grokipedia, Musk has done what AI enables too easily: colonize collective knowledge. He has taken a shared human effort, open, transparent, and collaborative, and automated it into something centralized, curated, and unaccountable. And he has done so doing the absolute minimum that the Wikipedia copyleft license requires, in extremely small print, in a place where nobody can see it."
Wikipedia functions as a global, volunteer-driven repository refined through debate and consensus, with human edits that are visible and correctable. Grokipedia overturns those norms by substituting deliberation with automated algorithms, removing transparency and pluralism while foregrounding a single operator's narratives. Algorithms generate rewritten entries that emphasize favored narratives and downplay disputed topics, producing centralized, curated, and unaccountable knowledge. Minimum compliance with the Wikipedia copyleft license is relegated to hard-to-find small print. The same approach to visibility control on other Musk-run platforms brings the black-box problem into structured knowledge, prioritizing speed and control over collective scrutiny.
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