{"id":257939,"date":"2026-01-26T06:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:19:13","slug":"chatgpt-is-pulling-answers-from-elon-musks-grokipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/257939\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk\u2019s Grokipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk had been complaining that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters soon noted that while many articles seemed to be <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/807686\/elon-musk-grokipedia-launch-wikipedia-xai-copied\" target=\"_blank\">copied directly from Wikipedia<\/a>, Grokipedia also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-wikipedia-competitor\/\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a> that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offered \u201cideological justifications\u201d for slavery, and used denigrating terms for transgender people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All that might be expected for an encyclopedia associated with a chatbot that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/09\/x-takes-grok-offline-changes-system-prompts-after-more-antisemitic-outbursts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described itself as \u201cMecha Hitler\u201d<\/a> and was used to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/15\/us-senators-demand-answers-from-x-meta-alphabet-on-sexualized-deepfakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flood X with sexualized deepfakes<\/a>. However, its content now seems to be escaping containment from the Musk ecosystem, with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/24\/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian reporting<\/a> that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guardian says ChatGPT did not cite Grokipedia when asked about topics where its inaccuracy has been widely reported\u2014 topics like the January 6 insurrection or the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. Instead, it was cited on more obscure topics, including claims about Sir Richard Evans that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/03\/grokipedia-academics-assess-elon-musk-ai-powered-encyclopedia\" target=\"_blank\">the Guardian had previously debunked.<\/a> (Anthropic\u2019s Claude also appears to be citing Grokipedia to answer some queries.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An OpenAI spokesperson told the Guardian that it \u201caims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,350,42343,85,46,1748,125,7963],"class_list":{"0":"post-257939","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-elon-musk","12":"tag-grokipedia","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}