Overview
- Wikimedia published a public note stressing Wikipedia’s human, volunteer-run, nonprofit approach and rejecting machine‑generated “truth” as xAI positions Grokipedia as an alternative.
- Grokipedia went live in version 0.1 with roughly 885,000 AI‑generated entries, many adapted from Wikipedia under Creative Commons licensing.
- Tom’s Guide found Grokipedia the overall winner across several categories, yet reported Wikipedia remained stronger for historical accuracy and misinformation refutation, with Grokipedia faring better on current developments and concise tech and culture queries.
- Early use surfaced factual mistakes and selective framing in Grokipedia, and critics point to Grok’s past offensive outputs that prompted an xAI apology as a lingering safety concern.
- Vox reported that entries currently lack photos and links, the corpus is far smaller than Wikipedia, and some topic treatments suggest ideological tilt, intensifying questions about editorial governance and oversight.