"The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history at Cambridge (a post endowed by Henry VIII) and supervised theses on Bismarck's social policy. That was some of what you could learn from Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia launched last week by the world's richest person, Elon Musk."
"It was part of a choppy start for humanity's latest attempt to corral the sum of human knowledge or, as Musk put it, create a compendium of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth all revealed through the magic of his Grok artificial intelligence model. When the multibillionaire switched on Grokipedia on Tuesday, he said it was better than Wikipedia, or Wokepedia as his supporters call it, reflecting a view that the dominant online encyclopedia often reflects leftwing talking points."
"In between posts on X promoting his creation, Musk this week declared civil war in Britain is inevitable, called for the English to ally with the hard men such as the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson, and said only the far-right AfD party could save Germany. Musk was so enamoured of his AI-encyclopedia he said he planned to one day etch the comprehensive collection of all knowledge into a stable oxide and place copies in orbit, the moon and Mars to preserve it for the future."
Grokipedia launched as an AI-powered encyclopedia created by Elon Musk. The platform presented numerous factual errors and lifted content from Wikipedia. Sir Richard Evans discovered false claims in his own Grokipedia entry. Users reported that entries promoted Musk's preferred rightwing talking points. Musk publicly claimed Grokipedia was superior to Wikipedia and framed Wikipedia as biased. Musk made a series of controversial political statements while promoting the product and described plans to preserve the encyclopedia by etching it into stable oxide and placing copies in orbit, on the moon and on Mars.
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