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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)

wtf is grok?

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Elons version of being artificially smart.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 16 points 6 months ago

It's X's integrated ChatGPT AI

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

It's ChatGPT but apparently entirely about X jokes? Lol

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

I had never heard of it either, but once I learned Musk was involved, the section title “Grok ranks among most reckless chatbots” made perfect sense.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Grok is an old ttrpg term that means "to intuitively understand something." As in "I totally grok how to play as an elf in ad&d but playing as a wizard is totally over my head"

edit: correct the autocorrect

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

"to really understand something"

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's also an old Log parser and search function for Linux/unix. So it's logical he would steal it like he stole the xorg iconography.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It's Elon being an unoriginal turd again.

https://manpages.org/grok