"In the age of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted search engines, Wikipedia remains an information repository authored by humans. Elon Musk, billionaire and former advisor to President Donald Trump, sought to create an AI-powered alternative: Grokipedia. "Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy," Musk posted on X the day after his site went live Oct. 27."
""So that means research the rest of the internet, whatever is publicly available, and correct the Wikipedia articles, fix mistakes, but also add a lot more context," he said on the podcast. Grokipedia articles often contain the text "Fact-checked by Grok." PolitiFact reviewed Grokipedia articles and found that when they include language that's different from what appeared on Wikipedia, the new content: Is not supported by citations; Does not provide references; or Introduces misleading or opinionated claims."
Grokipedia launched Oct. 27 as an AI-powered alternative claiming greater breadth, depth and accuracy than Wikipedia. Large portions of Grokipedia articles are almost entirely lifted from Wikipedia. When Grokipedia entries diverge from Wikipedia, the new material frequently lacks citations, omits references, or introduces misleading or opinionated claims. The Grok system was instructed to process the top one million Wikipedia articles to "add, modify and delete" and to research public internet sources to correct and add context. Many Grokipedia pages bear the label "Fact-checked by Grok." A sample of 885,279 articles shows AI-related sourcing and accuracy problems similar to earlier erroneous reports with faulty citations.
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