Overview
- Grokipedia went live with roughly 885,000 articles, compared with more than 7 million on English Wikipedia.
- Many pages carry “adapted from Wikipedia” notices with near-verbatim text, and Musk says dependence on Wikipedia should end by year’s end.
- Articles are generated and “fact-checked” by xAI’s Grok with no open human editing; users can submit correction requests and xAI plans AI‑mediated edits on request.
- Coverage documented selective omissions and tone seen as aligned with Musk’s views, including differences on pages about gender transition, Donald Trump, and Musk himself.
- The site briefly crashed under launch traffic, and the Wikimedia Foundation defended Wikipedia’s human, transparent model as the backbone for sources used by AI.