Elon Musk launches Grokipedia as an alternative to 'woke' Wikipedia
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by AI and designed to be closer to his conservative political views than the leading alternative, Wikipedia, El.kz cites NBC News.
Musk announced last month that he was working on a Wikipedia rival after a suggestion from David Sacks, a friend and fellow tech investor who is the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar. Musk has described the project in political terms, attacking Wikipedia as “woke” and criticizing it for citing news outlets such as The New York Times and NPR as sources in many of its articles.
Musk said on X that an AI-generated encyclopedia would be “super important for civilization” and a necessary step toward “understanding the Universe.”
Grokipedia’s operation differs from Wikipedia’s in at least one major respect: no clear human authors. While volunteers write and edit Wikipedia, often anonymously, Grokipedia says its articles were “fact-checked” by Grok, the AI chatbot from Musk’s startup xAI. Visitors to Grokipedia cannot make edits, though they can suggest edits via a pop-up form for reporting wrong information.
At least initially, some Grokipedia entries say they are based on Wikipedia itself.
“The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License,” a disclaimer says on the bottom of some but not all entries.
Some Grokipedia entries, such as the one for Monday, appear to be word for word the same as the corresponding Wikipedia entries.
Musk, though, has said he wants Grok to stop using Wikipedia pages as sources by the end of the year.
There are some content differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia.
The Grokipedia entry for Musk includes no mention of his hand gesture at a rally in January that many historians and politicians viewed as a Nazi salute, while the Wikipedia entry for him has several paragraph on the subject.
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