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Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views than the leading alternative, Wikipedia.
Elon Musk’s “Grokipedia” appears to be lifting from the very site that it’s trying to replace. Musk’s AI-fueled online encyclopedia appears to have ripped several entries directly from Wikipedia, The Verge reported.
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.”
Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia, on Monday. Musk announced in September that his team at xAI was developing Grokipedia. The site went live with 885,279 articles, but users reported experiencing errors.
“The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself,” said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. “Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power.”
Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live. Version 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo,” Musk wrote in a post on X, his social media platform, on Monday.
While Wikipedia is written and edited by volunteers, it's unclear how exactly Grokipedia articles are put together.
Musk's company is behind schedule in developing its Starship rocket. NASA's interim leader, meanwhile, wants to put astronauts on the moon while Trump is in office.
Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, said the SpaceX CEO is in “demon mode” over the prospect of NASA being folded into the U.S. Department of Transportation. Isaacson, who spent two years shadowing Musk,