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Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)
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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It comes from the Robert Heinlein sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. It was defined as fully understanding something. It was used later by nerds in other contexts, as your other replies show.