Ilon Musk has announced the launch of his own version of Wikipedia. Articles in his new project, the Grokipedia online encyclopaedia, will be edited by his own company xAI, which created the Grok neural network. Musk promises that Grokipedia will be free of the propaganda that he believes has flooded Wikipedia.
Now, Grokipedia’s home page says it already has nearly 900,000 articles. Wikipedia has almost eight million.
The idea of Ilon Musk was supported by David Sachs, curator of artificial intelligence in the administration of US President Donald Trump.
“Wikipedia has a dominant position. I hope Grokipedia can challenge it and fix it,” Sachs said on his podcast. “But it would be easier if Wikipedia stopped rejecting and censoring conservative publications.”
Wikipedia co-founder y, the statement on the advent of Grokipedia emphasised that neural networks are powered by human knowledge.
“People from all walks of life, from all backgrounds, collaborate and come to consensus, and together write a neutral, living history of human knowledge that reflects our diversity and our collective curiosity. AI companies rely on this human knowledge to create content, and even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia,” Dickinson said.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia has already run into problems through neural networks that take information from its articles. Visits to wikipedia.org by live people are down 8 per cent this year – in part because users now get the same information processed by neural networks through search services and chatbots.
Photo by, about a scientific organisation, national or international institution does not reject this view.”
In the Grokipedia article, the same phrase – “near unanimous scientific agreement” – appears in one paragraph and in a negative context. It states:
“Critics argue that claims of near consensus among scientists about the dominant human influence on recent climate change are exaggerated because of selective categorisation in literature reviews.”
The Grokipedia article also states that the press and organisations such as Greenpeace consistently portray climate change as an existential threat to humanity, “influencing public discourse and policy and not always relying on comparable empirical evidence.”
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