{"id":339738,"date":"2025-10-29T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339738\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:43:09","slug":"musk-launches-grokipedia-to-compete-with-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339738\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk<\/a> has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. <\/p>\n

Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is \u201cnow live\u201d and its goal is the \u201ctruth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk has previously criticized Wikipedia for being filled with \u201cpropaganda\u201d and called for people to stop donating to the site, which is run by a nonprofit. In September he announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI<\/a> was working on Grokipedia. <\/p>\n

The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar where users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than 7 million articles in English. <\/p>\n

Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace. <\/p>\n

While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it\u2019s unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together. Reports suggest the site is powered by the same xAI model that underpins Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot, but some articles are seemingly adapted from Wikipedia. <\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement Tuesday that it is \u201cstill in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a huge trove of well-constructed sentences with little restriction on how it\u2019s used, Wikipedia has been a key source used to train AI chatbots, including Grok\u2019s rivals ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Gemini. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,\u201d said the Wikimedia Foundation. <\/p>\n

Wikipedia for months has been a target of the political right. Republican lawmakers in the U.S. Congress launched an investigation in August of alleged \u201cmanipulation efforts\u201d in Wikipedia\u2019s editing process that they said could inject bias and undermine neutral points of view on its platform and the AI systems that rely on it. <\/p>\n

Wikipedia encourages its volunteer editors to cite nearly every sentence or paragraph with a primary source, and sentences not verified can be challenged and removed. Some of Grokipedia\u2019s entries are thinly sourced, such as an entry on the Chola Dynasty of southern India that has three linked sources, compared to Wikipedia\u2019s that has 113 linked sources plus dozens of referenced books. <\/p>\n

Grokipedia\u2019s entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having \u201csystemic ideological biases \u2014 particularly a left-leaning slant in coverage of political figures and topics.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Wikimedia Foundation said in its statement Tuesday: \u201cUnlike newer projects, Wikipedia\u2019s strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[738,64,57,712,1165,3571,158,61,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-339738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-taylor-swift","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-u-s-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115455158699432145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}