I agree there are historical precedents and mentioned them in the interview. What’s surprising here is that many Grokipedia articles are wholesale borrowings from Wikipedia, which is perhaps not what they were expecting…maybe even the opposite of what they wanted.

called it

Seems likely that Grokipedia will suffer from Grok’s, um, issues…

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I included this line: “A few questioned whether the Wikimedia Foundation was taking threats seriously enough when they were raised by the site’s volunteer administrators and functionaries.”

SFR needed ArbCom’s permission to make that statement and, as you may know, that took a few days.

Not a miss so much as a timing issue. I filed my story with Slate before SFR posted that statement. I’ve emailed Slate about adding an update to the story.

But thanks to you (and many, many others) for flagging.

More must be done to help wiki editors facing threats & harassment for their volunteer work. To build a culture that supports free knowledge.

As @craignewmark.bsky.social told the conference: “Wikipedia is where facts go to live. Not perfect, but it’s better than anything humanity has ever done."

What was the title previously?

“We owe the cultural achievements of humanity—which include philosophy—to deep, contemplative attention. Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible… A purely hectic rush produces nothing new.“ —2/2, from The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han