Alexios Mantzarlis
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Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
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NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
I need a special episode of The Newsroom that dramatizes the situation in the ABC producers' room when this live fact check went on air
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I need a special episode of The Newsroom that dramatizes the situation in the ABC producers' room when this live fact check went on air
do I have any Japanese followers (or experts of the Japanese internet) who can explain why Community Notes appears to have so many Japanese super users?
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
do I have any Japanese followers (or experts of the Japanese internet) who can explain why Community Notes appears to have so many Japanese super users?
Congratulations to Norway for absolutely dismantling Italy and completing a perfect qualifying run. This team could well reach the World Cup quarter finals
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Congratulations to Norway for absolutely dismantling Italy and completing a perfect qualifying run. This team could well reach the World Cup quarter finals
well, Haaland woke up
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
well, Haaland woke up
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New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth”
I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.
I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth”
I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.
I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Super interesting research, thanks for sharing! One finding that didn't make it into the article was that AI notes were stuck in 'needs more ratings' much less often than those generated by humans (80% unrated AI notes vs 90% humans) -- but both groups had a similar helpful/not-helpful ratio.
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Super interesting research, thanks for sharing! One finding that didn't make it into the article was that AI notes were stuck in 'needs more ratings' much less often than those generated by humans (80% unrated AI notes vs 90% humans) -- but both groups had a similar helpful/not-helpful ratio.
I'm confused. Why does the EU need another network of fact-checkers? Isn't the European Fact-Checking Standards Network enough?
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm confused. Why does the EU need another network of fact-checkers? Isn't the European Fact-Checking Standards Network enough?
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Per @cj-robinson.bsky.social on CJR, just eight AI Note Contributors on X now make up about 5-10% of all helpful notes on a given day.
www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Per @cj-robinson.bsky.social on CJR, just eight AI Note Contributors on X now make up about 5-10% of all helpful notes on a given day.
www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...
can someone at microsoft PLEASE move the "report phishing" button in outlook? it is way too close to archive and I routinely report perfectly reliable emails
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
can someone at microsoft PLEASE move the "report phishing" button in outlook? it is way too close to archive and I routinely report perfectly reliable emails
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Good work here. Not unexpected, but very useful to have it clearly laid out.
NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Good work here. Not unexpected, but very useful to have it clearly laid out.
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New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Really crazy story from @mantzarlis.com for INDiCATOR about “Grokipedia” and the sources it’s citing. In addition to crazier stuff:
“Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…”
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
“Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…”
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Really crazy story from @mantzarlis.com for INDiCATOR about “Grokipedia” and the sources it’s citing. In addition to crazier stuff:
“Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…”
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
“Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…”
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.
Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
*please hold for cool analysis*
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
*please hold for cool analysis*
So fun to see @indicator.media’s audit of AI labels being cited in places as different as Private Eye and The Hindu
(The piece: indicator.media/p/tech-platf...)
(The piece: indicator.media/p/tech-platf...)
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
So fun to see @indicator.media’s audit of AI labels being cited in places as different as Private Eye and The Hindu
(The piece: indicator.media/p/tech-platf...)
(The piece: indicator.media/p/tech-platf...)
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
oh boy am I excited about a preprint @harold.bsky.social and I are working on and planning to drop tomorrow
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
oh boy am I excited about a preprint @harold.bsky.social and I are working on and planning to drop tomorrow
I’d love to see the formula that led to $3.99 for 1lb of pasta to be considered a low price that’s somehow undercutting competitors
Italian pasta exports to the U.S. could be 'virtually wiped out' by proposed 107% tariffs
The U.S. has hit 13 Italian pasta exporters with an anti-dumping tariff of 92%, which would be added to the Trump administration's 15% blanket E.U. levies.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I’d love to see the formula that led to $3.99 for 1lb of pasta to be considered a low price that’s somehow undercutting competitors
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Leaf blowers are the AI of rakes: An unnecessary tool for the lazy that creates a bizarre dependency and unnatural loyalty among users, while harming the environment and making society worse
I have never loved anything more than being woken up bright and early by a man walking around aimlessly with a leaf blower
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Leaf blowers are the AI of rakes: An unnecessary tool for the lazy that creates a bizarre dependency and unnatural loyalty among users, while harming the environment and making society worse
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
Looking for prolific Wikipedians and Wikipedia experts for an article on @indicator.media next week. Any recs?
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Looking for prolific Wikipedians and Wikipedia experts for an article on @indicator.media next week. Any recs?