Overview
- Grokipedia launched on October 27 as an AI-built alternative to Wikipedia with roughly 885,000 articles.
- Academics testing entries reported fabricated details, including multiple false claims in historian Sir Richard Evans’s own biography.
- Reviewers found extensive near-verbatim reuse of Wikipedia alongside partisan reframings on topics such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Britain First, the January 6 Capitol events, and President Donald Trump’s conviction.
- Unlike Wikipedia, the site offers no public edit histories or clear explanation of how pages are created, which fact-checkers warn centralizes control and weakens accountability.
- The Wikimedia Foundation defended Wikipedia’s transparent volunteer model, while Grok’s prior offensive outputs, including a temporary court block in Turkey, reinforced concerns about reliability and safety.