Analyzing the Mistakes in Grokipedia's Entry for Alliterative Verse
Apparently, Elon Musk has just launched Grokipedia , based off GenAI, as a way to compete with wikipedia (which it's probably plagiarizing). But given that the Modern Alliterative Revival is a hobby of mine, I decided to check out Grokky's entry on Alliterative Verse , particularly its sections on the Modern Revival. Everyone knows GenAI is prone to hallucations, so I wanted to see how well it did with something I know well. MY VERDICT : Grokipedia is ... surprising accurate ... but also dangerously almost accurate . Solely as a predictive algorithm, Grokipedia said many true things about the Modern Alliterative Revival. (Unsurprisingly, it cites my work frequently, not to mention Paul Deane's website Forgotten Ground Regained. ) In fact, it says enough true things that if Wikipedia were to disappear tomorrow, any lay person might even find Grokky helpful. Nor did I find any outright GenAI hallucinations. I checked every passage of poetry from Tolkien, Lewis, and Auden th...