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Musk’s xAI Launches Grokipedia, an AI‑Written Rival to Wikipedia

The site uses Grok to generate and vet entries, replacing Wikipedia’s volunteer editing with AI oversight.

Overview

  • Grokipedia v0.1 is live in English with roughly 885,000 AI‑generated articles and is presented as free and open‑source.
  • Pages are produced and “verified” by xAI’s Grok, with users limited to submitting correction suggestions rather than directly editing entries.
  • Early reviews highlight politically charged framings on topics such as George Floyd, gender and race, with some content differing sharply from Wikipedia.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation said it is still assessing how Grokipedia works and stressed that Wikipedia’s knowledge is created and governed by humans.
  • Musk promotes tighter integration with X and Grok and vows a v1.0 “ten times better,” while the site is not yet broadly indexed by Google, raising questions about reach and SEO.