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• ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Grok is also a word in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and is specifically named as the inspiration for Grok….
  but thanks for playing “i read google ai overview”

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  • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a long-time fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, I have no memory of the word ‘grok’ appearing, and the internet at large appears to agree.

    I read Stranger in a Strange Land a couple decades ago, and the word is presented in a way that’s pretty easy to remember where you got it from.

    I don’t tend to use Google AI overview or any other such tools to get answers like this to quip back at people, and I’d appreciate if you didn’t just assume I did.

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Here’s your AI overview you dip head, it’s not fucking in that book

    The word “grok” is not in the book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Instead, “grok” is a neologism coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It means to understand intuitively or deeply, often with empathy. Although some discussions and online posts mistakenly associate “grok” with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the term actually originates exclusively from Heinlein’s work. In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide, different slang words appear such as “sass,” “hoopy,” and “frood,” but “grok” is not one of them. The recent AI called Grok is reportedly modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide in style or spirit, but the word itself is Heinlein’s creation and not part of Adams’ original book. Therefore, “grok” is not a word from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book but from another classic sci-fi novel enti

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