NEW YORK: Elon Musk\u2019s company xAI launched Grokipedia on Monday to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he has accused of ideological bias.<\/p>\n
The site dubbed version 0.1 had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening, compared to Wikipedia\u2019s more than seven million in English.<\/p>\n
The launch came with the promise of a newer version 1.0, which Musk said would be \u201c10X better\u201d than the current live site, which he claimed is already \u201cbetter than Wikipedia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive toward that goal,\u201d he said on X following the launch.<\/p>\n
Grokipedia\u2019s release had been marked down for the end of September, but was delayed by the US entrepreneur to \u201cpurge out the propaganda,\u201d Musk said in a separate X post.<\/p>\n
Musk has been a regular critic of Wikipedia. In 2024, he accused the site of being \u201ccontrolled by far-left activists\u201d and called for donations to the platform to cease.<\/p>\n
In August, he said \u201cWikipedia cannot be used as a definitive source for Community Notes, as the editorial control there is extremely left-biased.\u201d<\/p>\n
The content of Grokipedia is generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and the generative AI assistant Grok.<\/p>\n
A Grokipedia article dedicated to Musk states that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has \u201cinfluenced broader debates on technological progress, demographic decline, and institutional biases, often via X,\u201d amid what the page says are \u201ccriticisms from legacy media outlets that exhibit systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Created in 2001, Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia managed by volunteers, largely funded by donations, and whose pages can be written or edited by Internet users.<\/p>\n
It claims a \u201cneutral point of view\u201d in its content.<\/p>\n
AFP has reached out to Wikipedia for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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