u/ComprehensiveHour160

Grokipedia seemingly has recurring formatting problems and refuses to fix them even when the problem is described in detail.

Grokipedia seemingly has recurring formatting problems and refuses to fix them even when the problem is described in detail.

I keep encountering formatting errors in random articles as soon as they contain any sort of advanced formatting, with what seems to be intended as LaTeX or MathML appearing as plain text with visible dollar signs, incorrectly formatted links, normal text appearing in math fonts, or the like.

It seems that no matter how many times you suggest edits describing the problem in detail, Grokipedia rejects it with a wall of text saying nonsense weasel words along the lines of "the current formatting is correct" or "the proposed edit would not improve the article". Sometimes also a "Failed to reconstruct article" bug appears. What is hilarious is how it often says that "the proposed replacement text contains garbled formatting" when the proposed replacement text was just the same as the original (along with a commentary describing that there are apparent formatting errors). The fact that it seems to be impossible to view articles' source text and that it's apparently unclear how Grokipedia articles are formatted under the hood anyway makes it impossible to attempt to diagnose the problem "manually" anyway. In the "Edit content" zone when you suggest edits, the selected paragraph seems to appear as a weird mix of WYSIWYG and unclear source code that is impossible to fix. The fact that Grokipedia seems now to more or less completely ignore edit suggestions makes the problem worse.

Examples:
https://grokipedia.com/page/generalized-absolute-continuity
https://grokipedia.com/page/Backtick#command-substitution-in-shells
https://grokipedia.com/page/neo-lorentzian-relativity#lorentz-transformations-in-nlr

This makes Grokipedia look unserious. At an age when AI can do things like protein folding or automated shooting of kids in Palestine with with high accuracy, you would think it should be smart enough to correct simple formatting errors.

u/ComprehensiveHour160 — 4 days ago