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xAI's Grokipedia is now live.
Articles on the platform are written and "fact-checked" by Grok.
It differs from Wikipedia in several ways, but also rips it off.
On Monday, Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia, an online information repository that's curated entirely by Grok, the company's flagship AI chatbot. Musk has been promoting the site as a kind of anti-Wikipedia, which he has said has "a non-trivial left-wing bias" and has derisively called "Wokepedia."
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Since its debut in 2001, Wikipedia has amassed well over seven million articles, all of which are written and edited by human users. While the idea behind this model was to allow for the entry of a maximal diversity of perspectives and opinions -- a kind of self-correcting information machine that would incline toward truth -- many people, including the site's cofounder Jimmy Wales, have argued that Wikipedia has become ideologically biased in recent years.
Just as Grok was intended to be an anti-"woke" alternative to popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, xAI is promoting Grokipedia as a more balanced and reliable version of Wikipedia. But how does it stack up? I tried it out.
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