Overview
- Grokipedia went live with roughly 885,000 articles after a brief outage, with Elon Musk touting a future Version 1.0 he says will be “10X better.”
- Entries are generated and “fact-checked” by xAI’s Grok, and users cannot directly edit pages, though they can submit correction suggestions; Musk says requests to Grok to modify pages are planned.
- Many pages display a Creative Commons notice that content was adapted from Wikipedia, with several entries appearing near-verbatim; Musk says reliance on Wikipedia will be reduced by year-end.
- Early reviews report selective omissions and conservative framings, including missing conflict-of-interest details on Donald Trump and no mention of a widely criticized rally gesture on Musk’s page, with WIRED also flagging inaccuracies on LGBTQ topics.
- The Wikimedia Foundation responded that Wikipedia’s knowledge is human-created and widely reused by AI systems, saying even Grokipedia depends on it.