Tim Bray on Grokipedia
GrokipediaSearch Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia. Here are early impressions. On Bray · My Grokipedia entry has over seven thousand words, compared to a mere 1,300 in my Wikipedia article. It’s pretty clear how it was generated; an LLM, trained on who-knows-what but definitely including that Wikipedia article and this blog, was told to go nuts. Speaking as a leading but highly biased expert on the subject of T. Bray, here are the key take-aways: (Overly) complete · It covers all the territory; there is no phase of my life’s activity that could possibly be encountered in combing the Web that is not exhaustively…
