"Grokipedia.com came online on Monday, and features 885,279 articles on the site as of Tuesday. The online encyclopedia is Musk's answer to what he's repeatedly called " Wokipedia," the popular free online source with over 7 million articles in English alone as of Tuesday. Wikipedia articles are maintained by volunteer writers and editors, while xAI's service uses AI to generate articles by pulling from different resources across the internet, one being Wikipedia."
"Musk, who founded xAI in 2023 and owns a majority share of the company, has promoted the AI-powered encyclopedia as a less-biased alternative to Wikipedia prior to its launch and a product that developers actively worked to "purge out the propaganda" from. He's previously taken issue with Wikipedia for referencing news outlets including The New York Times and NPR. The launch of Grokipedia marks its initial version 0.1, but a later version 1.0 "will be 10X better," Musk said in an X post on Monday."
"At the end of articles on Grokipedia, the reader gets a notice that the content was adapted by Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which is a content license that allows anyone to copy, distribute, adapt and build upon creative works including text, images and music-even for commercial purposes-as long as they provide proper attribution to the original creator. The "Share Alike" portion of the license means the creator that makes a new version of content under this license is agreeing to allow others to do the same to their cont"
Grokiipedia launched as an AI-generated encyclopedia at Grokipedia.com with 885,279 articles shortly after its Monday debut. xAI generates entries by aggregating material from across the internet, including Wikipedia, while Wikipedia relies on volunteer writers and editors. The project is presented as a less-biased alternative with developers aiming to "purge out the propaganda." Grokipedia launched as version 0.1 and Musk promised a later 1.0 that will be "10X better." Many Grokipedia pages include notices attributing adapted content to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
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