Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
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 copied directly from Wikipedia<\/a>, Grokipedia also claimed<\/a> that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offered \u201cideological justifications\u201d for slavery, and used denigrating terms for transgender people.<\/p>\n All that might be expected for an encyclopedia associated with a chatbot that described itself as \u201cMecha Hitler\u201d<\/a> and was used to flood X with sexualized deepfakes<\/a>. However, its content now seems to be escaping containment from the Musk ecosystem, with the Guardian reporting<\/a> that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions.<\/p>\n 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 the Guardian had previously debunked.<\/a> (Anthropic\u2019s Claude also appears to be citing Grokipedia to answer some queries.)<\/p>\n 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,11,138812,1283,74,4119],"class_list":{"0":"post-430076","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-openai","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}