"Musk said on an October 31 episode of the All-In tech and business podcast that his team instructed his company's chatbot, Grok, to go through the top 1 million Wikipedia articles and then add, modify and delete. 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 copies Wikipedia's format, but loose fact-checking and weak citations leave many of its claims unreliable. Last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered platform, to rival online encyclopedia Wikipedia. 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 on October 27."
Grokipedia mirrors Wikipedia’s format but frequently reproduces Wikipedia content and adds AI-generated changes with inconsistent sourcing. Many entries bear the label "Fact-checked by Grok" despite lacking supporting citations, references, or necessary context. When Grokipedia content diverges from Wikipedia, the new text often contains unsupported, misleading, or opinionated claims and removes contextual material. The platform originated in late October 2025 with claims of vastly greater breadth and accuracy. A review of an 885,279-article sample reveals widespread copying and AI-related accuracy problems, making Grokipedia an unreliable tool for rigorous research without independent verification.
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