{"id":104682,"date":"2025-10-28T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:55:09","slug":"elon-musks-xai-launches-grokipedia-an-ai-powered-encyclopedia-but-it-comes-with-a-wikipedia-disclaimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/104682\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia; but it comes with a \u2018Wikipedia\u2019 disclaimer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ElonAI-generated image for representation purpose Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s Grokipedia is now live, the Tesla CEO announced on X (formerly Twitter). The platform, said to be an AI-generated encyclopedia rivals Wikipedia<\/a> which Musk often criticized in the recent past for “editorial bias”. What caught users\u2019 attention is that some results on the new platform appear to be adapted from Wikipedia.Announcing the launch, the tech billionaire wrote \u201cGrokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live.\u201d \u201cVersion 1.0 will be 10X better, but even at 0.1 it\u2019s better than Wikipedia imo,\u201d he further stated.In another X post, Musk announced \u201cThe goal of Grok and http:\/\/Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some Grokipedia results are based on Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Interestingly, some of the Grokipedia entries are adapted from Wikipedia. Search results for topics like Nobel Prize, Monday (first reported by NBC News) show the disclaimer \u201cThe content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License\u201d at the bottom. \"Grokipedia\"Grokipedia\"Also, Grokipedia says its articles are \u201cfact-checked\u201d by Grok, the AI chatbot from Elon Musk\u2019s AI company xAI. But users also reported spotitng some of the content copied from Wikipedia.Notably, an X user pointed out the same earlier this month. \u201cYou know Grok uses Wiki pages?,\u201d the user wrote. To this, Musk replied \u201cI know. We should have this fixed by end of year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grokipedia vs Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Key differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia are:Grokipedia\u2019s content is largely generated or curated by the AI model Grok, whereas Wikipedia is edited and maintained by volunteer humans.Wikipedia offers open editing, transparent revision history and community governance; Grokipedia currently limits user edits and lacks full transparency on who changed what.Wikipedia content is freely licensed (\u201cCreative Commons\/Free) and uncoupled from commercial interests; Grokipedia is associated with a for-profit venture and uses AI systems that may embed bias.Wikipedia hosts millions of articles across many languages and thousands of edits daily, whereas Grokipedia launched with under a million entries and is still at v0.1.<\/p>\n

What Wikipedia said on Grokipedia launch<\/p>\n

In a statement, Wikimedia Foundation that hosts Wikipedia said \u201cWikipedia\u2019s knowledge is \u2014 and always will be \u2014 human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding \u2014 one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn\u2019t interfere with our work or mission.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-generated image for representation purpose Elon Musk\u2019s Grokipedia is now live, the Tesla CEO announced on X (formerly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,516,75855,75856,50048,111,139,69,145,51235],"class_list":["post-104682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-elon-musk-launches-grokipedia","tag-elon-musks-xai-launches-grokipedia","tag-grokipedia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}