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Grokipedia Goes Live After Brief Outage, Drawing Scrutiny Over Wikipedia Copying

The xAI encyclopedia’s early version relies on Creative Commons–licensed Wikipedia text with limited editing transparency.

Overview

  • The site returned online Monday after an initial crash and displayed a homepage tally of roughly 885,000 articles.
  • Multiple entries match Wikipedia word for word and include a small notice attributing the content under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
  • Some pages reflect a different framing than Wikipedia, including a climate change entry that emphasizes critics of a near-unanimous scientific consensus.
  • User editing appears restricted in this v0.1 release, with sporadic edit buttons and unclear attribution for changes alongside “fact-checked by Grok” labels.
  • A Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson said “even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” as Elon Musk promotes the project as a necessary step toward xAI’s goals.