"Not content with space travel, electric cars and a social media platform, Elon Musk is now at the helm of a new online encyclopedia known as Grokipedia, which went live on Monday. The Grok in the name refers to the generative AI chatbot from Musk's startup xAI that features prominently on his social network, X. Grok will, according to the company, perform all fact-checking on Grokipedia. But Grok, like other AI models of its type, has shared disinormation a number of times."
"Why has Elon Musk started Grokipedia? Though he has previously praised Wikipedia, Musk has changed his position on the site of late. He labeled it "Wokepedia" in late September and accuses the site of favoring liberal causes and people in the way it presents information. Until recently, Musk was a friend of US President Donald Trump and publicly supported many of his conservative policies."
""Really money isn't directly the objective here, this project really responds to those criticisms of Wikipedia from so many figures within the American conservative and the right-leaning world," he said. "There's an attempt to try and provide an alternative to a traditional source, that might have been Wikipedia in this case, and try and make this outlet that's AI-powered the new anchor, for alte"
Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia powered by his Grok generative AI chatbot. Grok is designated to perform all fact-checking on Grokipedia despite a history of generating misinformation, including antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler earlier this year. Grokipedia v0.1 contains just under 900,000 articles, about one-tenth the size of Wikipedia. Musk has criticized Wikipedia, labeling it "Wokepedia" and accusing it of liberal bias. Observers say motivations for Grokipedia are likely ideological, aiming to provide a conservative-leaning, AI-anchored alternative to Wikipedia, though commercial factors may also play a role.
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