US EditionWikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Isn't Worried About Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not Optimistic He Will Create Anything Very Useful Right Now'
Grokipedia heavily copies Wikipedia content, selectively editing entries with ideological changes, including controversial removals and additions, according to multiple news reports.
- On Monday, xAI unveiled Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia, announcing the site was live as a rival to Wikipedia.
- Elon Musk has long criticized Wikipedia for bias and promoted Grokipedia as a less-biased alternative, with xAI aiming to counter what Musk calls propaganda.
- Sample checks show large sections copied from Wikipedia, with Grokipedia.com featuring 885,279 articles as of Tuesday and content adapted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
- Wikimedia's Lauren Dickinson said Grokipedia wouldn't exist without Wikipedia and emphasized transparency, while Jimmy Wales told CNBC he isn't optimistic and warned about LLM errors, as some edit buttons don't allow changes.
- Where pages diverge, edits often tilt ideologically, and Jimmy Wales warned Grokipedia's AI can fabricate content, noting Wikipedia's $175 million costs contrast with $550 billion in AI spending next year.
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Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia: See how Elon Musk’s encyclopedia describes 5 hot-button topics
Business Insider compared the Grokipedia pages of five contentious subjects to their Wikipedia counterparts. Jae C. Hong/AP Business Insider compared the Grokipedia and Wikipedia pages of five contentious issues. The online encyclopedias had widely different descriptions of Gamergate, but they were more similar on OpenAI. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia often blamed criticism on the media or left-leaning institutions. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia promises to …
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia and what he says is 'woke' bias, but founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried, and says LLMs can't even write a wiki.
Elon Musk's Grokipedia is here, and it copies Wikipedia a lot
Elon Musk's answer to Wikipedia is now here. On Monday, Musk announced that his own online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, was now live.According to Musk, the current version of Grokipedia is only "version 0.1" but he claimed that it's already "better than Wikipedia." This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Up until a few years ago, Elon Musk frequently shared links to Wikipedia entries on X, then known as Twitter…
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia
Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises. Grokipedia’s reliance on Wikipedia runs deep. Some pages even admit that their “content is adapted from Wikipe…
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