Grokipedia, the encyclopedia powered by xAI’s assistant Grok briefly went on-line Monday, earlier than it promptly crashed. On the time of this writing, the web site seems to be working, and accommodates greater than 885,000 articles, in accordance with a counter on its homepage.
Musk, who has beforehand railed in opposition to Wikipedia, has described the venture as a “a essential step in the direction of the xAI purpose of understanding the Universe.” Musk and his allies have lengthy claimed that Wikipedia is biased. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has known as Musk’s claims in regards to the crowd-sourced encyclopedia “factually incorrect.”
Musk stated final week that Grokipedia’s launch had been delayed so as “to do extra work to purge out the propaganda.” Notably, some articles are practically equivalent to their entries in Wikipedia, although Grokipedia doesn’t include in-line hyperlinks to sources in the identical format. Such entries do have a small disclaimer that “the content material is customized from Wikipedia, licensed underneath Artistic Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”
In different circumstances, social media customers have already noticed cases the place Musk’s worldview is extra apparent within the “AI-powered encyclopedia.” Here is an excerpt from the entry for “college,” as captured by Bluesky consumer Jeremy Cohen.
Bluesky screenshot of a Grokipedia entry for “college.”
(Bluesky)
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