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Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” (theintercept.com)

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In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” But while Musk’s Grokipedia, in his eyes, is propaganda-free, it seems to have a proclivity toward right-wing hagiography.

Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.

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[–] lefthandeddude@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

Musk is clearly a Nazi.

First, there's the Nazi salute. There's no reason to do that unless you are a Nazi.

Second, Nazis called Hitler my Furer, and he's rewriting it this way specifically for this reason. It is an honorific title and he's showing honor to Hitler.

Third, Musk deflects from accusations he's a Nazi ("that's a crazy thing to say") but he never responds by saying "What Hitler did was horrible and I'm not a Nazi and detest their ideology" which is what someone would say if not a Nazi.

The scary thing about this is Musk will soon control a large robot army. At that point, he could appoint white supremacists to lead the robot army and pick up where Hitler left off. This is a real threat for Jewish people as well as other minorities.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Isn't "Furer" just the German word for leader? I'm pretty sure the word existed before Hitler and the Nazis I don't think they invented it.

[–] groet@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The word Führer is 99% used for Hitler. There are many variants that are OK to use though. Most notably Anführer (if Führer is leader, Anführer would be "the one who leads ahead") which is the common word to use for leader. Others are composites like Bergführer (mountain guide).

The swastica also existed before the nazis but is now forever tainted.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What about someone who drives a car? Many Germans have a Führerschein in their wallet. It's just a normal-ass word.

[–] groet@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

You can read right?

Führer = Hitler
Something-Führer / Führer-Something = not Hitler

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