"As pointed out by several commenters on Musk's X post, the phrase "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons" appears at the bottom of a number of Grokipedia pages. A Google site search of Grokipedia for pages containing that phrase returns several hits, and it's not an exhaustive list by any means, as several pages that show the phrase (MacBook Air, Crop Circle, etc.) don't appear in Google results."
"Beyond simply copying content from Wikipedia, Grokipedia appears heavily dependent on using AI to generate slop pages that even its namesake AI bot isn't convinced are a fair representation of the facts. Asking Grok to point out logical fallacies in Grokipedia's page about Wikipedia, for example, leads Musk's own AI to say that Grokipedia was "cherry-picking evidence" about Wikipedia to amplify claims that Wikipedia had a left-wing bias, as Musk has claimed in the past."
Elon Musk announced Grokipedia "version 0.1" on X, claiming the site is better than Wikipedia even at 0.1. Grokipedia lists 885,279 articles, many apparently derived directly from Wikipedia pages. Multiple Grokipedia pages include the notice "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons." A Google site search finds several such pages, and some pages that show the notice do not appear in search results. Several pages appear copied verbatim from their Wikipedia equivalents, prompting the observation that even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Grokipedia also relies heavily on AI to generate additional pages, and its own AI criticized some pages as "cherry-picking evidence" to amplify claims about Wikipedia's political bias, raising concerns about accuracy and sourcing.
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