Elon Musk launched an AI-generated encyclopedia, Grokipedia, as an alternative to Wikipedia.
“Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live,” he wrote on X. “Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia [in my opinion].”
Upon launching, Grokipedia hosted 885,279 articles. In discussing Grokipedia in September, Musk said the online encyclopedia would be a “massive improvement over Wikipedia.”
“Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe,” he said.
A study from Media Research Center Free Speech America found that Wikipedia has effectively blacklisted conservative media groups. The groups blacklisted include Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Newsmax, OANN, and the Media Research Center.
“Such a blockade has resulted in a disparate balance that disturbingly disadvantages right-leaning media: Wikipedia effectively blocks 100 percent of right-leaning media sources – the ones more likely to give fair treatment to the majority in Congress as well as to incoming officials to the Trump administration,” MRC wrote. “On the contrary, only 16 percent of left-wing media sources fail to win Wikipedia’s stamp of approval.”
Similarly, the House Oversight Committee, along with the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, launched an investigation into Wikipedia over manipulated entries.
“Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences. One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel,” Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) wrote in the letter to Wikimedia Foundation. “A second investigation detailed actions by hostile nation-state actors to expose Western audiences to pro-Kremlin and anti-Western messaging by manipulating Wikipedia articles and other news outlets relied on for training AI chatbots.”
