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Musk’s xAI Launches Grokipedia, an AI-Written Encyclopedia Challenging Wikipedia

The launch links Grok to X in a closed information loop that intensifies questions about bias and oversight.

Overview

  • Grokipedia v0.1 is live with roughly 885,000 English-only entries generated and “verified” by xAI’s Grok, with users limited to submitting correction suggestions rather than editing pages.
  • Early articles differ sharply from Wikipedia on topics such as gender, George Floyd, race and intelligence, Black Lives Matter, and Tucker Carlson, drawing criticism for conservative-leaning framing.
  • Reporters identified contentious sourcing, including Kremlin-linked materials in Ukraine-related pages, raising concerns over accuracy, neutrality and source quality.
  • xAI markets the site as free and open-source, and Elon Musk promises a forthcoming version 1.0 he says will be “10 times better,” with continuous updates tied to improvements in Grok.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation says it is assessing how Grokipedia operates and emphasizes Wikipedia’s human-written, transparently governed model, while Grokipedia’s visibility in major search indexes remains limited.