This seems like an old article, but probably still true today
What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia. It seems way easier than continually telling his 200MM+ followers how great a deeply broken product is.
> What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia.
The way to make your MVP less shitty is to throw time and money at iterating it. Which I understand is what's happening.
I'm sure in a few years it'll either be quite good, or have clearly highlighted some fundamental limitations of language models as a class.
That would require careful planning, introspection, and humility.
Could it be, could it possibly be, because he’s not an honest broker but a deeply wounded, emotionally immature malignant narcissist who needs the world to conform to his darkest viewpoints so that he can tell himself that he is not the imperfect person he knows himself to be?
What would a "good" version be ?
Start putting real facts into a site and before you know it you're "woke" again with such untruths as Slavery was Bad, Biden won the 2020 Election and of course Full Self Driving is Impossible without Lidar
It is not possible to make a good version of Grokipedia while satisfying the requirements of its owner, namely to launder ultra-right viewpoints[1].
1: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-...