Elon Musk plans to write human knowledge with Gok AI

Elon Musk announced the goal of rebuilding the Gok model developed by the Artificial Intelligence Company XAI on a “complete and error -free” basis. According to Musk, the new version of Gok, 3.5, will have advanced reasoning capabilities and eliminate wrong or incomplete information by “rewriting all human knowledge”.

Musk said that Grok’s current data set is full of “garbage and unscientific data” and said that the trained models cannot be reliable with this information. For this reason, the new version will first “clean” the existing information set, then will be trained again with this rewritten data.

What does “rewrite all human knowledge” mean?

Musk’s statements represent not only an artificial intelligence update, but also an approach that will radically change the understanding of defining and ownership of knowledge. Gok’s new version, rewriting historical events, accuracy criteria through the filter of Musk’s filter, especially from the academy circle received intense reaction.

HARGE CRITICS FROM ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CLAIMS

Gary Marcus, Professor and Artificial Intelligent Professor of New York University Emeritus, criticized Musk’s statements to the dystopic understanding in George Orwell’s “1984” novel:

“Rewriting history is the dystopia itself because it does not follow your own views.”

Bernardino Sassoli, a professor of logic and philosophy of science from the University of Milan in Italy, described Musk’s initiative as a “dangerous narrative control ında in his comment in LinkedIn:

“If we are facing billionaires who try to shape history according to their ideology, we are no longer in innovation, but of narrative control.”

“Share the facts” Call: Is the dangerous door open?

In order to create Grok’s new set of information, Musk called on X (Old Twitter) users and asked them to share the information “politically not correct but real”. However, this call soon led to the spread of many conspiracy theories, from Holocaust denial to false information, from racist theories to climate denial.

Musk had previously announced that it aims to combat disinformation with content verification tools such as “Community Notes”. However, the X platform’s loosening moderation policies has been criticized for a long time on the grounds that it has prepared the ground for the spread of false information.

Conclusion: Real or comment?

Although Musk’s goal of ı rewriting human knowledge ”seems to be a groundbreaking innovation in the world of technology, it creates concern in terms of ethical limits and power balances. Considering the neutrality of knowledge and the sensitivities of the protection of historical records, this move seems to have a great impact not only in technology but also for social memory.