Sept. 30 (UPI) — Elon Musk-owned xAI plans to launch a challenger to Wikipedia called “Grokipedia” that he said will be a big improvement over the popular open-source website.
The site will be powered by the Grok AI chatbot and help xAI to better understand the world and the universe, Mint reported on Tuesday.
Musk announced Grokipedia in a pair of posts on X on Tuesday.
In one post, Musk invited people to join xAI and “help build Grokipedia,” which he described as an “open-source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia!”
He said Grokipedia will be available to the public with no limits on use.
The AI-powered open-source site would use artificial intelligence to automatically correct errors and help to ensure Grokipedia content is accurate and factual.
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk said in another post, adding that it “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.”
Included in that post is another made by tech founder and investor David Sacks, who criticized Wikipedia as being “hopelessly biased” and run by “an army of left-wing activists.”
He said such activists maintain bios and “fight reasonable corrections” on Wikipedia.
“Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results” and has become a “trusted source for AI model training,” Sacks said. “This is a huge problem.”
Sacks made the suggestion after recently watching Tucker Carlson interview Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who guided Carlson through lists of Wikipedia-approved and banned sources, according to Cryptopolitan.
Among approved Wikipedia sources are Mother Jones, GLAAD, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Among its banned sources are Fox News, The New York Post, The Federalist and Breitbart News.
Such banned sources can be used for opinions, but they cannot be used as factual sources, Sanger told Carlson.
Musk previously accused Wikipedia of being biased for editing the term “recession” more than 180 times in a single week in 2022 and a year later questioned its neutrality and transparency.
In December, he suggested Wikipedia users stop donating to the forum due to its alleged $50 million investment in diversity, equity and inclusion projects.