Will Musk be the next Trump?

[JimC]

The Manchurian Candidate...

[Brian Peacock]

Damn! Beat me to it

[Tero]

When things go wrong, Tesla becomes a death trap. On the plus side, you do not need to pay for the cremation. The Tesla does it for you.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... 1751703655

[Brian Peacock]

Dark, but funny Tero.

[NineBerry]

A German satire site has speculated that Musk's new party will be called "New Super Duper America Party" (NSDAP)

[Brian Peacock]

lol

[Svartalf]

A German satire site has speculated that Musk's new party will be called "New Super Duper America Party" (NSDAP)

ouch, I got that one, and it's harsh.

[pErvinalia]

Musk in line for $1 trillion bonus at Tesla.

Eat the rich.

[Tero]

I got my first ride in a Tesla in Austria. Our friends bought it some 5 years ago. It is a business expense with his logo on the door. My son has an electric car too. Have not seen it. Chevy, used.

[pErvinalia]

And that he's a better athlete than LeBron James.

[Brian Peacock]

That photo! These guys all seem to adopt the Mussolini pose - lifting the chin and sucking the gut in.

[Sean Hayden]

He’s just the homunculus…

[Brian Peacock]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Deserves a place in this thread. It's about sharing love, or something. You know, my heart goes out to you. We've got a preprint paper analyzing Grokipedia, the Musky answer to Wikipedia. According to their results, to a large extent Grokipedia simply rips off Wikipedia, with some added spice from rotten sources including the deranged Grok LLM itself.

Note however that one of the authors of the paper is the former director of the International Fact-Checking Network. Two discredited designations there: 'International' might as well have the echo parentheses and it's well known that fact-checkers are horrible people.

Anyway, how are you going to get the truth about certain topics if you won't cite Stormfront or Infowars as sources?

'What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia'

Abstract:

Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to a dump of Wikipedia, with a focus on article similarity and citation practices.

Although Grokipedia articles are much longer than their corresponding English Wikipedia articles, we find that much of Grokipedia's content (including both articles with and without Creative Commons licenses) is highly derivative of Wikipedia. Nevertheless, citation practices between the sites differ greatly, with Grokipedia citing many more sources deemed "generally unreliable" or "blacklisted" by the English Wikipedia community and low quality by external scholars, including dozens of citations to sites like Stormfront and Infowars.

We then analyze article subsets: one about elected officials, one about controversial topics, and one random subset for which we derive article quality and topic. We find that the elected official and controversial article subsets showed less similarity between their Wikipedia version and Grokipedia version than other pages. The random subset illustrates that Grokipedia focused rewriting the highest quality articles on Wikipedia, with a bias towards biographies, politics, society, and history. Finally, we publicly release our nearly-full scrape of Grokipedia, as well as embeddings of the entire Grokipedia corpus.

[NineBerry]

When I first heard the name Grokipedia I thought this was a wiki specifically on all topics related to drunken pirates.