Elon Musk launches Grokipedia
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Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises.
Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.
In a tweet that remained pinned to Elon Musk’s X profile as of Tuesday morning, the billionaire describes his motives for launching the new site: “The goal here is to create an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge.
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
Elon Musk ha lanzado Grokipedia, una enciclopedia en línea colaborativa que el multimillonario busca posicionar como rival de Wikipedia.
An early version of Grokipedia is now live, with 885K+ articles 'fact-checked' by AI. But in some cases, the content appears to be copied from Wikipedia.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has rejected claims by Elon Musk that the online encyclopedia has a left-wing bias, describing the Tesla and X owner’s remarks as “just factually wrong.”
In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.