Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, a new AI-driven alternative to Wikipedia and its “wokeness”
Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a new AI-powered online encyclopedia built on the AI assistant Grok and positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he described as being influenced by “woke” left-wing perspectives. Musk described it as “super important for civilization” and part of a broader effort to reshape how information is presented online.
Grokipedia’s interface closely mirrors Wikipedia, featuring a central search bar and structured articles with citations, although it currently lacks several features such as images, videos, or even hyperlinks between different articles on the platform. One major difference from Wikipedia is that the platform uses AI to generate and review entries instead of relying on community editing, meaning there is no real human contribution to the information presented, at least at launch. Only certain pages display an edit button, and visitors can suggest corrections through a pop-up form. Most entries claim to be “fact-checked” by Grok, raising questions about reliability given the known inaccuracies of large language models.
Despite emphasizing its differences from Wikipedia, it is impossible to overlook that many Grokipedia articles are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, with some parts being identical word for word. Musk has said he plans to phase out this reliance by the end of 2025. However, there are also notable differences in how Grokipedia approaches certain topics, with some pages already showing ideological contrasts, including coverage of climate change that questions scientific consensus, as well as entries about Donald Trump and Musk himself that omit any controversial details.
So far, the Wikimedia Foundation has responded by reaffirming that Wikipedia’s knowledge “will always be human,” built through collaboration and consensus. The site launched with around 885,000 articles, far fewer than Wikipedia’s 7.1 million in English, and is labeled version 0.1.
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Oh man, a challenge the left's narrative on reality. Truth is the #1 thing the left will attack. Especially if it's in the field of education.
Wikipedia is notorious for having very biased and misleading articles, especially if it pertains to anything social or political. Almost everything on there leans Left or has a very Leftist bias. Even the former co-founder of the site said it was a misleading rag now. Wikipedia either downplays things like Marxism and Socialism with a lot of article spam from biased sources like CNN (who are very notorious for having an Establishment\Pro-Democrat voice), or using exaggerating language about the AR-15. I have seen videos from a long time ago where a group of Feminists were constantly writing\editing articles for that site and some of the admins and moderators are not just very suspicious, but they blatantly put out their heavily Leftwing socio-political views on their Abouts page.
ANY kind of alternative to Wikipedia, especially if it's about certain topics, is very welcome. The people here coping and raving with veiled "Elon Bad" and "Wikipedia is truthful" are part of the problem.
so a.i pedia made by right wing crypto fascist is a good thing ? Why does fascist cannot create a human made alternative of wikipedia if wikipedia is lefitst communist bad thing ? because they are fake, hypocrit, liars.
Throwing terms like "fascist" is not going to convince anybody unless you can point where he said that he hates certain people based on their immutable characteristics. Somebody who has huge ego, being on the spectrum and tries to seem cool and be knowledgeable where he is not (gaming, programming) makes him a faker and not what you want to believe. On other point, I already said that 90% of Wikipedia are fields that do not involve politics. Why reinvent all human knowledge when you can just copy it.
The other 10% of Wikipedia that is related to current politics is mostly wrong, fake or disingenuous. But I do not think that fixing or writing those articles anew can be done just with AI. It will require human component. You just do not know how much human component going into AI. There are thousands of people in Third World countries that only do AI fixes when something is reported that it does not look right. Musk want to promote his AI, but in reality there will be hundreds of people doing manual checks and adjustments all the time.
read the full statement of Wikimedia' spokesperson in the Verge article (listed as a source here). it restores my humanity.
"What if I created another Torment Nexus today instead of using my wealth to end world hunger?", Elon Musk pondered to himself after his morning dose of K
Ad-hominem attack, lies, irrelevant to the product.
Moyofa, agreed. It's total TDS. Guy revolutionizes global car technology, has by far the most successful rockets in history, saves astronauts stuck in space, sets up a state-of-the-art supercomputer in record time.... but he's crazy, incompetent, and does drugs... says a person who hasn't accomplished 1/100th of these things.
Interesting concept, the first version is underwhelming and worse than wikipedia. Not sure why anyone would use it in its current form
Anyone? Like, every person here with a positive comment on the product?
Wikipedia is one of the few open-source projects to have established itself as a world reference. It offers content based on neutrality and facts. 100% human-powered! Contributors can follow a page they care about and modify it as soon as there's an error. Don't try to write just anything; it will be corrected anyway. By creating this "clone," Elon Musk removes all that humanity, removes what makes Wikipedia a reliable source. And of course, he adds far-right-politics, biased, transphobic, homophobic, climate-denying, and other kinds of contents... In short, a big pile of 💩..
So there's no armies of political ideology-driven humans trying to rewrite facts on wikipedia? Sounds like a pretty inhuman thing to do.
Yes! I'm so tired to fighting extremists when creating content on wikipedia. I very much welcome an effort on neutrality and decreasing bias.
For all the Elon haters, xAI was recently benchmarked as still being slightly left-leaning, so it's not so much a threat to your ideologies, unless you're an extremist.
Elon, how do you find time on writing these comments?
Anyone that has tried to contribute on Wikipedia would know that there are a lot of bots that automatically delete your changes. These people downvoting the truth live in a bubble.
Speaking of truth, anyone interested in it should head over to X and learn from the owner himself that the Epstein files aren't getting released because Donald Trump's name is all over them. Yes, Elon donated hundreds of millions to Trump's presidential campaign and brought his kid to hang out with him, but it was all for the greater good of combating the woke mind virus 👍
@Azazel - you must be a hoarder living in the boonies, who believes the world is flat, Elon is a ralien, have no friends, and are ashamed to find out about the NYT reporter who begged Epstein for Trump dirt and found nothing on him.