Overview
- PolitiFact’s review found many Grokipedia entries closely mirror Wikipedia, and deviations often lack citations or introduce misleading, opinionated claims.
- An arXiv analysis reports heavy derivation from Wikipedia and unusually frequent citations to sources flagged as unreliable or blacklisted, including Stormfront and Infowars, alongside a released near-full site scrape for research.
- The Wikimedia Foundation warned that Grokipedia depends on Wikipedia’s volunteer-written content and filters it through opaque algorithms that reduce public accountability.
- Grokipedia offers no public edit history, leaving unclear how errors are identified, who corrects them, and how changes are deliberated or documented.
- Musk said Grok was directed to process the top 1 million Wikipedia articles to add, modify, or delete content, while a Slate review highlighted slanted framing on Musk’s own page that casts critics as left-leaning media.