Musk to Launch ‘Grokipedia’ as Rival to Wikipedia
Elon Musk is launching Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia integrated with the Grok AI chatbot, to combat what he sees as Wikipedia’s left-wing bias and manipulation of truth.
At the end of September, Musk wrote on X that the new competitor will “be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.”
“Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe,” he said.
Tech founder and investor David Sacks said that Wikipedia is “hopelessly biased.”
“An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem,” he wrote on X.
The Tesla billionaire told Sacks’ All In Podcast that “Grok is using heavy amounts of inference compute to look at, as an example, a Wikipedia page and say, ‘What is true, partially true, false, or missing in this page? Now rewrite the page to remove the falsehoods, correct the half-truths and add the missing context.’”
On Oct. 5, Musk wrote that a Version 0.1 early beta of Grokipedia will be published in “2 weeks.”
He shared a post by the account X Freeze, which said that Grokipedia is “going to be the world’s biggest, most accurate knowledge source, for humans and AI with no limits on use.”
The co-founder of Wikipedia has said that 85% of the most influential accounts on Wikipedia are anonymous.
Larry Sanger who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago, wrote on X on Sept 30 that following on from his interview on the Tucker Carson show that anonymous for-hire editors shape the narrative on the platform.
“Did you know that 85% of the most influential accounts on Wikipedia—the “Power 62”—are anonymous? We simply don’t know who they are. It’s a fact,” he wrote.
He told the show that Wikipedia contains a “list of perennial sources which serves as an ideologically one sided blacklist of media sources” which was established in 2017. The year US President Trump was inaugurated.
He said that the “blacklist should be abolished.”
Red list means blacklisted, and contains sites like New York Post, The Epoch Times, Fox News and Raw Story. The Green list contains sites like CNN, Pink News and The Guardian.
The Daily Telegraph is green apart from its “transgender topics.”
Senger said he was nailing “Nine Theses to the door of Wikipedia.” The post was shared by X billionaire Elon Musk.
“This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal,” he said.
Part of these included that Wikipedia must “return to genuine neutrality by refusing to take sides on contentious topics, even when one view dominates academia or mainstream media.”
He added that Wikipedia’s “most powerful editors remain overwhelmingly anonymous despite wielding enormous influence over one of the world’s most powerful media platforms. These leaders must be publicly identified for accountability (and given liability insurance).”