{"id":107621,"date":"2025-10-28T02:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107621\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:05:06","slug":"elon-musks-grokipedia-pushes-far-right-talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/107621\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI startup<\/a> launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia<\/a> Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be \u201ca massive improvement over Wikipedia,\u201d and \u201ca necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed \u201cto do more work to purge out the propaganda.\u201d When Grokipedia eventually dropped on Monday, WIRED was initially unable to access the website and received an automated message that it was blocked.<\/p>\n

When we finally got access to it, WIRED found that the online encyclopedia contained lengthy entries generated by AI. While many of the pages WIRED saw on launch day appeared fairly similar to Wikipedia in terms of tone and content, a number of notable Grokipedia entries denounced the mainstream media, highlighted conservative viewpoints, and sometimes perpetuated historical inaccuracies.<\/p>\n

The Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans in the US includes a section outlining numerous \u201cideological justifications<\/a>\u201d made for slavery, including the \u201cShift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good.\u201d The end of the entry focuses on criticisms of The 1619 Project, which it says incorrectly framed \u201cslavery as the central engine of the nation’s political, economic, and cultural development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entries for more recent historical events put conservative perspectives at the center. When WIRED searched for \u201cgay marriage\u201d in Grokipedia, no entry popped up, but one of the on-screen suggestions was for \u201cgay pornography\u201d instead. This entry in Grokipedia falsely states that the proliferation of porn exacerbated the HIV\/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis marked the onset of what would become a devastating crisis disproportionately affecting gay male communities, where behaviors idealized in pornography\u2014such as unprotected receptive anal intercourse and multiple anonymous partners\u2014aligned directly with primary transmission routes, leading to rapid seroconversion rates,\u201d the Grokipedia entry claims.<\/p>\n

xAI did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Grokipedia entry for \u201ctransgender\u201d includes two mentions of \u201ctransgenderism,\u201d a term commonly used to denigrate trans people<\/a>. The entry also refers to trans women as \u201cbiological males\u201d who have \u201cgenerated significant conflicts, primarily centered on risks to women’s safety, privacy, and sex-based protections established to mitigate male-perpetrated violence.\u201d The opening section highlights social media as a potential “contagion” that is increasing the number of trans people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,969,605,61,60,80,7192,1515],"class_list":{"0":"post-107621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-wikipedia","17":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}