Andrew Duffield, the head of AI at Full Fact, said: \u201cIt\u2019s quite hard to work out what it is, why it exists and how it is working, and that in itself is part of the challenge here.\u201d <\/p>\n
He added that unlike Wikipedia, which is fully transparent about its editorial process, Grokipedia was a bit of a black box. Duffield said: \u201cWe need to be able to understand what information was used to create this content, what the model underlying it was trained on, what rules it has, what the trust and safety policies are, how we can ask for corrections, what the corrections process will look like, which humans have been involved in it. In their absence it\u2019s very hard to place trust in something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 How Sam Altman and Elon Musk are competing to change your brain<\/a><\/p>\n Musk and his allies consider Wikipedia to be a propaganda tool as it blacklists the New York Post, Daily Mail, Fox News, Breitbart and other similar outlets as sources of information. He has claimed that it is \u201ccontrolled by far-left activists\u201d and once offered $1 billion to rename it \u201cDickipedia\u201d. <\/p>\n In August, Congress opened an investigation into Wikipedia and how it countered \u201cefforts to manipulate information on the platform for propaganda aimed at western audiences\u201d. Grokipedia\u2019s entries are largely factual and very long, but they do have hints of Musk running through them. <\/p>\n Musk\u2019s entry: an \u2018irreverent visionary\u2019<\/p>\n His own Grokipedia page describes Musk as an \u201cirreverent visionary\u201d and says that he \u201cinfluenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline and institutional biases\u201d. It adds that his ownership of X has drawn \u201ccriticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage\u201d. <\/p>\n It differs in tone and content from the Wikipedia version, which references Musk\u2019s grandfather\u2019s support of Nazism and the billionaire\u2019s alleged \u201cfascist\u201d salute<\/a> during the US election. That incident, which is not mentioned in Grokipedia, has its own Wikipedia entry. It prompted Musk to call for Wikipedia to be defunded \u2014 a move that backfired and drove record funding to the site, according to Jimmy Wales, the co-founder. <\/p>\n Wikipedia\u2019s references to increased hate speech and misinformation after Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter and his attempts to silence critics are not mentioned on Grokipedia. <\/p>\n Omissions for far-right figures<\/p>\n People such as Tommy Robinson<\/a> and Sir Oswald Mosley also get a subtle gloss on Grokipedia. Robinson is described as a \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d who \u201cadvocates against Islamist extremism and organised child sexual exploitation networks\u201d. <\/p>\n It claims that his \u201ccritiques of parallel societies and radical Islamism influenced policy discourse, prompting government reviews like the 2016 Casey Review on integration\u201d. Wikipedia calls him an \u201canti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK\u2019s most prominent far-right activists\u201d who \u201chas a history of criminal convictions<\/a>\u201d, and details his assault, mortgage fraud, stalking and contempt of court cases. <\/p>\n Musk during a video call with Tommy Robinson at the Unite the Kingdom rally in London earlier this year<\/p>\n Mosley has a section called \u201chistoriographical assessments and debates\u201d on Grokipedia. It says: \u201cRecent reappraisals, particularly in 21st-century studies of interwar economics and populism, counter anti-fascist tropes by validating Mosley\u2019s policy prescience.\u201d <\/p>\n Sir Oswald Mosley<\/p>\n HULTON ARCHIVE\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n On the topic of the street clashes involving Mosley\u2019s British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1935, it says: \u201cMainstream accounts \u2026 depicted BUF initiators as thugs provoking disorder \u2026 BUF records and trial outcomes often portrayed members as defenders against premeditated communist \u2018heckler squads\u2019 and Jewish protection rackets.\u201d <\/p>\n Race theories<\/p>\n Grokipedia\u2019s entry on the great replacement theory, the idea that whites are being replaced by non-whites, does not label it a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d like Wikipedia, which also says that it has been debunked. Grokipedia instead says that critics describe it as a conspiracy theory. <\/p>\n An entry on apartheid has a section on \u201cdebunking prevailing narratives\u201d. It qualifies the \u201cnarrative\u201d of \u201cunremitting total oppression for black South Africans\u201d with this: \u201cEmpirical data indicate substantial advancements in black literacy and real wages during the era.\u201d <\/p>\n The Grokipedia entry on multiculturalism has a heavy focus on failures, integration issues, crime, welfare strain and political reversals compared with Wikipedia\u2019s. <\/p>\n Gender and sex entries<\/p>\n Musk has publicly struggled with having a transgender child<\/a> and believes that hormone therapy is driving \u201cextreme\u201d levels of \u201ctrans violence\u201d. The Grokipedia entry on the issue was unlikely to be neutral. It defines biological sex as a strict \u201cdimorphic\u201d and \u201cbinary classification\u201d based on gametes and chromosomes, calling it \u201cimmutable\u201d. <\/p>\n It also features the theory of rapid onset gender dysphoria to explain the sharp rise in adolescent identification, based on a 2018 study which critics say was flawed. <\/p>\n Vivian Wilson, Musk\u2019s transgender daughter<\/p>\n MICHAEL BUCKNER\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n The Grokipedia entry on cisgender, a term that Musk has called a \u201cheterosexual slur\u201d, has a section on \u201cclaims of redundancy\u201d in which it detailed objections that the word \u201cpathologises normalcy\u201d. Wikipedia has also included criticisms, including Musk\u2019s, but in less detail. <\/p>\n Musk has bold predictions for his new project. \u201cGrokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n Previous challengers such as Conservapedia, Wikinfo, MyWikiBiz, Citizendium and Everipedia have failed to rival Wikipedia. But Stephen Harrison, a writer who has focused on Wikipedia, said: \u201cSome Wikipedians pointed out that there have been competitors over the years that have risen and fallen. Some of them are thinking that this is another flash in the pan. My view is this might be a little bit different, because none of those other projects really had the backing of a billionaire or the world\u2019s richest man<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n![\"Tommy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\/b0af7c75-070b-4d6c-88da-01243908b6b9.jpg\")
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