"Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is "now live" and its goal is the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."Musk has previously criticized Wikipedia for being filled with "propaganda" and called for people to stop donating to the site, which is run by a nonprofit."
"The Grokipedia site has a minimalist appearance with little beyond a search bar where users can type in queries. It states that it has 885,279 articles. Wikipedia, meanwhile, says it has more than 7 million articles in English.Like Wikipedia, users can search for articles on various topics such as Taylor Swift, the baseball World Series, or Buckingham Palace.While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it's unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together."
"The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation said in a statement Tuesday that it is "still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works."As a huge trove of well-constructed sentences with little restriction on how it's used, Wikipedia has been a key source used to train AI chatbots, including Grok's rivals ChatGPT and Google's Gemini."This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," said the Wikimedia Foundation."
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as a rival to Wikipedia and claiming to deliver "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Grokipedia lists 885,279 pages and features a minimalist interface centered on a search bar. Reports indicate the site may be powered by xAI's Grok model, and some pages appear adapted from Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation said it is still assessing how Grokipedia operates and noted that Wikipedia's human-created content has been widely used to train AI systems. Grokipedia's editorial process and sourcing remain unclear while Wikipedia maintains far more English pages.
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