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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is present live, the Tesla CEO announced connected X (formerly Twitter). The platform, said to beryllium an AI-generated encyclopedia rivals Wikipedia which Musk often criticized successful the caller past for "editorial bias".
What caught users’ attraction is that immoderate results connected the caller level look to beryllium adapted from Wikipedia.Announcing the launch, the tech billionaire wrote “Grokipedia.com mentation 0.1 is present live.” “Version 1.0 volition beryllium 10X better, but adjacent astatine 0.1 it’s amended than Wikipedia imo,” helium further stated.In different X post, Musk announced “The extremity of Grok and http://Grokipedia.com is the truth, the full information and thing but the truth.
We volition ne'er beryllium perfect, but we shall nevertheless strive towards that goal”.
Some Grokipedia results are based connected Wikipedia
Interestingly, immoderate of the Grokipedia entries are adapted from Wikipedia. Search results for topics similar Nobel Prize, Monday (first reported by NBC News) amusement the disclaimer “The contented is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed nether Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License” astatine the bottom.
Also, Grokipedia says its articles are “fact-checked” by Grok, the AI chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI institution xAI.
But users besides reported spotitng immoderate of the contented copied from Wikipedia.Notably, an X idiosyncratic pointed retired the aforesaid earlier this month. “You cognize Grok uses Wiki pages?,” the idiosyncratic wrote. To this, Musk replied “I know. We should person this fixed by extremity of year.”
Grokipedia vs Wikipedia
Key differences betwixt Grokipedia and Wikipedia are:
- Grokipedia’s contented is mostly generated oregon curated by the AI exemplary Grok, whereas Wikipedia is edited and maintained by unpaid humans.
- Wikipedia offers unfastened editing, transparent revision past and assemblage governance; Grokipedia presently limits idiosyncratic edits and lacks afloat transparency connected who changed what.
- Wikipedia contented is freely licensed (“Creative Commons/Free) and uncoupled from commercialized interests; Grokipedia is associated with a for-profit task and uses AI systems that whitethorn embed bias.
- Wikipedia hosts millions of articles crossed galore languages and thousands of edits daily, whereas Grokipedia launched with nether a cardinal entries and is inactive astatine v0.1.
What Wikipedia said connected Grokipedia launch
In a statement, Wikimedia Foundation that hosts Wikipedia said “Wikipedia’s cognition is — and ever volition beryllium — human. Through unfastened collaboration and consensus, radical from each backgrounds physique a neutral, surviving grounds of quality knowing — 1 that reflects our diverseness and corporate curiosity. This human-created cognition is what AI companies trust connected to make content; adjacent Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.
Many experiments to make alternate versions of Wikipedia person happened before; it doesn’t interfere with our enactment oregon mission."
