Elon Musk Unveils AI-Generated 'Grokipedia' To Rival Wikipedia–Here's What To Know

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Elon Musk on Monday night unveiled “Grokipedia,” an online encyclopedia built entirely using AI-generated articles designed to take on Wikipedia, which Musk and his allies have claimed is biased and “woke.”  Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/10/28/musk-takes-on-wikipedia-with-ai-generated-grokipedia-what-to-know/  Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1  Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:  https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript  Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes:  http://forbes.com  Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.

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00:00Elon Musk on Monday night unveiled Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia built entirely using

00:06AI-generated articles designed to take on Wikipedia, which Musk and his allies have

00:11claimed is biased and woke.

00:14Last month, Musk announced plans to build Grokipedia, claiming that it would be an improvement

00:19over Wikipedia and a quote, necessary step towards the XAI goal of understanding the

00:25universe.

00:26Musk's announcement was in response to a post from White House AI Czar, Silicon Valley

00:31investor David Sachs, who has been a prominent critic of Wikipedia.

00:35In his post, Sachs claimed, quote, Wikipedia is hopelessly biased, an army of left-wing

00:41activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections.

00:46The X-owner then boosted posts from Wikipedia's critics, accusing it of having a left-wing

00:51bias and labeled the crowdsourced platform, quote, Wikipedia.

00:57At launch, Grokipedia has over 885,000 articles compared to Wikipedia's 7 million.

01:04But while the crowdsourced online encyclopedia uses human authors and editors, Musk's alternative

01:10is entirely composed of articles generated and supposedly fact-checked by XAI's Grok.

01:16Grokipedia also does not allow its users to make any edits.

01:20But Musk said users will be, quote, able to ask Grok to add, modify, or delete articles,

01:26and it will either take the action, or tell you it won't, and why.

01:30In a separate X post, Musk added that the goal of Grok in Grokipedia is, quote, the truth,

01:35the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

01:38We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal.

01:43For articles on Grokipedia include a disclaimer at the bottom, which reads, quote, the content

01:48is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 4.0 license.

01:56Wikipedia's website already has an entry on Grokipedia, which notes that, quote, many articles

02:01are derived from Wikipedia articles, with some articles observed to be copied nearly verbatim,

02:07end quote.

02:08Musk said he is aware of Grokipedia using Wikipedia articles, and added, quote, we should have this

02:14fixed by end of year.

02:16In a statement shared with multiple outlets, the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit which

02:22runs Wikipedia, said, quote, Wikipedia's knowledge is, and always will be, human.

02:28This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content.

02:33Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.

02:37The statement added, quote, many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have

02:42happened before.

02:43It doesn't interfere with our work or mission.

02:46For more on this story, check out the article at the link in the description.

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