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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)
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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 41 points 10 months ago (7 children)

wtf is grok?

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Elons version of being artificially smart.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 16 points 10 months ago

It's X's integrated ChatGPT AI

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

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 10 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.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

"to really understand something"

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

It's Elon being an unoriginal turd again.

https://manpages.org/grok