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Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles by qingcharles on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:48PM (#45736219)
As a Green Line enjoyer, I'm not enough of an expert to spot the factual errors. The article does seem a bit much though. I've noticed a lot of the Grokipedia articles just go on. If I wanted to know that much about the Green Line I could probably just buy a book on it.
Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles by TYPE_FASTER on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:56PM (#45736345)
While ChatGPT tells me it's unable to access the linked page directly from Grokipedia (lolol), I was able to download the content, copy/paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to fact check it. I think I will do this more often, with other sites (and other models) as well, going forward, as Chat is able to categorize statements as being correct vs. misleading vs. flat out wrong.

> The article does seem a bit much though. I've noticed a lot of the Grokipedia articles just go on.

And yes, that's what I'm noticing as well. There is a clear attempt to establish a narrative.

Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles by cozzyd on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:27PM (#45739453)
Among the more obvious errors are short runs to UIC/Halsted and a northwestern trajectory along Lake St from the loop.

But yes, it also suffers from attention to irrelevant detail.

Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles by cozzyd on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:39PM (#45740216)
Keeping with the Green theme the page on Green's Functions (https://grokipedia.com/page/Green's_function) sounds like it's having a stroke
Re:Grokipedia by xAI has just launched with 885,279 articles by 113 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:20PM (#45740018)
The problem I have with most AI output like this is that it's just a huge wall of text that doesn't really say anything.