Elon Musk’s xAI Launched Grokipedia, a New AI-Powered Encyclopedia

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Elon Musk, last week, unveiled Grokipedia.com, his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia.

The new project’s entries will be edited by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.

The website featured over 885,000 entries in just three days. This number took Wikipedia over half a decade to reach.

Wikipedia, which debuted almost 25 years ago and now includes eight million human-written entries, has faced increasing criticism from conservatives in recent months.

Elon Musk and his political allies have argued that the online encyclopedia is too “woke” and excludes conservative media outlets from its approved citations

“Grokipedia will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” said Musk. “It will purge out the propaganda flooding Wikipedia.”

“Wikipedia has achieved a dominant position. I hope Grokipedia challenges it and is able to fix that,” said David Sacks, the A.I. czar of the Trump administration and an investor in several of Musk’s companies, in an episode of his podcast this month. “But the easier path might just be for Wikipedia to stop blackballing and censoring conservative publications, rather than having to rebuild that whole thing from scratch.”

Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, said he is leading an internal working group focused on promoting neutral points of view and developing guidelines to encourage academic research.

In addition, he said that he did not think AI could replace the site’s accuracy.

Visits to its website have declined by 8% this year, while visits from automatic scrapers used by AI companies to harvest data have increased. AI-generated summaries by search engines and chatbots are also deterring users from visiting Wikipedia.