00:03Elon Musk's new Wikipedia rival is barely a month old and already in a full-blown credibility crisis.
00:09Launched by XAI as a bias-free antidote, Grokipedia now looks like Wikipedia's chaotic evil twin, says a Cornell Tech study.
00:17Researchers found Grokipedia stuffed with citations from wildly unreliable sources, some banned by Wikipedia years ago.
00:25Its Clinton body count entry even cited InfoWars.
00:28Yes, the same InfoWars known for turning Frogs and Alex Jones into cultural punchlines.
00:34Articles not taken from Wikipedia were three times more likely to reference unreliable sources and 13 times more likely to cite sources that had been blacklisted.
00:45In internet years, that's like discovering your brand new smoke detector was built entirely out of matches.
00:51AI-powered info tools don't just get things wrong, they get things wrong at scale.
00:56No human editors, no community review.
01:00Confident robot certainty can turn faux facts and conspiracy theories into official-looking answers.
01:07And it's all happening under the roof of someone who now controls both ex-Twitter and a rapidly expanding AI empire.
01:13When one person controls multiple information fire hoses, the stakes aren't small.
01:18Oops, we accidentally amplified baseless political conspiracies?
01:21Musk's response, a rebrand to Encyclopedia Galactica, which he describes as a sci-fi version of the Library of Alexandria.
01:32Cute name, but researchers say renaming the problem won't fix its foundation.
01:37Meanwhile, the Wikimedia Foundation reminded the world that its messy, human-run model is exactly what keeps misinformation at bay.
01:44A machine alone can't build trust, especially one that thinks InfoWars is a source worth quoting.
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