Overview
- Grokipedia v0.1 went live with roughly 885,000–900,000 AI-generated entries, with many pages labeled as adapted from Wikipedia under Creative Commons licensing.
- Wikipedia responded with a banner emphasizing that it is created by people and owned by a non-profit, as the Wikimedia Foundation noted that AI projects rely on human-curated knowledge.
- Reporters found factual errors and right-leaning framing, including an initial Hitler entry that downplayed the Holocaust before being updated later in the week.
- Coverage flagged partisan sourcing and slanted narratives on sensitive topics, citing reliance on Lisa Littman’s ROGD study, New Discourses, and framing that cast Alex Jones’s Sandy Hook judgments as mere setbacks.
- Musk promised rapid improvements and greater accuracy, yet a rocky rollout, Grok’s past antisemitic outputs, and opaque editorial oversight have intensified trust concerns.