US EditionMusk Launches AI-Powered Grokipedia to Rival Wikipedia
- On Oct 27, Elon Musk unveiled Grokipedia, an AI-driven online encyclopedia by xAI that briefly crashed and listed more than 800,000 AI-generated entries versus Wikipedia's nearly 8 million human-written ones.
- Following months of criticism, Elon Musk pitched Grokipedia as a corrective to perceived bias, announcing last month that investor David Sacks suggested the idea during Musk's All‑In Podcast appearance.
- Grokipedia is labeled v0.1 and lists 885,279 articles; visitors cannot edit directly but can suggest changes via a pop-up form, with entries fact-checked by Grok, the xAI chatbot.
- The Wikimedia Foundation said Monday it is examining Grokipedia and emphasized Wikipedia's knowledge is human, while Lauren Dickinson said `even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist` and Jimmy Wales warned AI will make errors.
- In broader context, Grokipedia reframes recent U.S. events like the January 6 insurrection and President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss while early reviewers such as WIRED noted a conservative tilt and inaccuracies on HIV/AIDS and transgender topics.
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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to rival ‘left-biased’ Wikipedia
Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right-wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than 7 million in English. The launch came with the promise of a newer version, 1.0, which Musk said would be “10X better” than t…
Billionaire Ilon Musk launched the online encyclopedia "Groquipedia", which should be an alternative to Wikipedia and which he believes is now better than it.
Grokipedia has started - Elon Musk's answer to Wikipedia's "political and ideological bias" in his view. But Grokipedia is obviously all sorts of things - just not unbiased. By A. Göpfert.
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- 36% of the sources lean Left, 36% of the sources are Center
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