Overview
- Launched on October 27 with roughly 885,000 entries, Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is promoted as a rival to Wikipedia.
- Reporters and academics documented word-for-word lifts from Wikipedia and multiple inaccuracies, including false details in historian Richard Evans’s biography.
- Comparisons found markedly different framings on contentious topics, describing Britain First as a “patriotic political party” and echoing Kremlin narratives on the war in Ukraine.
- The Wikimedia Foundation emphasized Wikipedia’s transparent volunteer oversight and said it is still working to understand how Grokipedia is produced and sourced.
- Critics cited missing edit histories, unclear provenance and Grok AI’s prior safety lapses, including a Turkish court’s temporary block after offensive outputs in July.