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I don't think anyone's arguing against whether or not it's possible, the question is whether it's valuable, correct, and A Good Thing.

I have access to a number of LLMs and can order it to build me a wiki site with all knowledge of the world, just like everyone else with the same access. What would make mine any more valuable or better than another?

Grokipedia lacks the fundamental quality that makes WP great, collaboration.

Saying there is no collaboration is like saying multiple people on a software project can't collaborate with Claude Code because it's really just Claude writing the code.

There's no on-platform way of communicating to other editors and I don't think you get responses from the site when you report errors. It's like saying multiple people on a software project can't collaborate with Claude Code because they're all just yelling at a single claude with no responses from claude or communication between people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia#:~:text=that%20arti... It literally states itself on the frontpage that it's bad.

Funny though, as that admission of error makes it more reliable than if it tried to hide this fact.

Grokipedia's mistake is that it generates text statically instead of dynamically from a machine curated data structure in latent space.

Latentpedia starts from wikidata, not Wikipedia.

Funny, I wanted to mention grokipedia as an example of why a pile of slop that’s subtly wrong about many details is a bad idea.

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