"His occasional criticisms of the platform were about how it represented him. "History is written by the victors," he wrote in 2020, "except on Wikipedia haha." A year earlier, he'd complained about his own entry. "Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It's insane!" he wrote, bemusedly calling his page a "war zone" with "a zillion edits." In response to a supportive comment, he joked: "Some day, I should probably write what *my* fictionalized version of reality is 🤣🤣.""
"Six years, nearly $500 billion, and one extremely public political transformation later, well, "🤣🤣" indeed. The newly launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with more than 800,000 entries, will be, according to Musk, a "massive improvement over Wikipedia," which he has referred to more recently as "Dickipedia" and "Wokipedia," characterized as "broken," and accused of being an "extension of legacy media propaganda.""
In 2021 Elon Musk celebrated Wikipedia's birthday and had previously engaged with the site as an avid consumer and occasional critic of how it represented him. Over subsequent years his complaints escalated from bemused comments about his page's edits to public denunciations that called Wikipedia 'Dickipedia' and 'Wokipedia' and labeled it 'broken' and an 'extension of legacy media propaganda.' Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with over 800,000 entries, which he described as a 'massive improvement' over Wikipedia. His objections shifted from personal grievance to a broader crusade framed as necessary for understanding humanity's place in the universe.
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