"Elon Musk is the kind of entrepreneur who likes to have an enemy as motivation-traditional carmakers, the mainstream media, the "deep state." His newest undertaking, launched October 27, is no exception: Grokipedia is positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia, which Musk claims is biased and "woke." A product of Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, Grokipedia's inner workings are unclear, but the pitch is that it's an AI-generated compendium of what Musk calls "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.""
"For example, in a YouGov survey in the U.K., 64% of respondents said they trust Wikipedia "a great deal" or "a fair amount," beating out the likes of the BBC and The Times; a five-country survey in 2019 found trust of Wikipedia at 78% or better. For techno-optimists, Wikipedia was touted as a portent of the internet's utopian work-together future. In a world where top-down information "gatekeepers" were no longer trusted, Wikipedia attained a Web-era version of gravitas, a crowdsourced Walter Cronkite."
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia via xAI as an AI-generated compendium claiming to present "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Grokipedia targets Wikipedia, which Musk labels biased and "woke." Grokipedia's internal mechanisms remain unclear. Wikipedia, by contrast, is widely used and trusted, with surveys showing high public trust and surpassing traditional information brands. Wikipedia overcame early skepticism about crowdsourcing to gain credibility by the mid-2010s. Techno-optimists hailed Wikipedia as an example of collaborative internet promise. Despite social media divisiveness, Wikipedia remains one of the world's most popular and respected information sources.
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