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Grokipedia applies a right-wing filter to Wikipedia - Indicator:
“Grokipedia launched on Monday as a self-styled alternative to Wikipedia. While some pages are simply an AI-generated regurgitation of the very Wikipedia it’s supposed to replace, other entries reflect the biases of its main owner, Elon Musk. The entrepreneur’s page, for instance, “describes him in rapturous terms while downplaying, or even omitting, several of his controversies,” according to Time. Topics like climate change, George Floyd, and vaccines have an editorial slant in line with the billionaire’s views. The entry on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine takes a both-sides approach to the war and sourced some information directly from the Kremlin’s website.
The page for the January 6 attack on the US Capitol goes out of its way to legitimize Trump’s false claims of election fraud and downplays the violent actions of rioters. The list goes on. On Grokipedia, Musk’s allies are praised: the German AfD is defended from accusations of being a far-right party; Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is singled out as “distinguishing her[self] from predecessors in a political landscape often critiqued for elite detachment from empirical voter concerns.” This highly opinionated take is sourced to Meloni’s bio page on the Italian government’s website, which says nothing of the sort…”
See also 404 Media – Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human. “…as part of his ongoing war against Wikipedia because he does not like his page, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, a fully AI-generated “encyclopedia” that serves no one and nothing other than the ego of the world’s richest man.
As others have already pointed out, Grokipedia seeks to be a right wing, anti-woke Wikipedia competitor. But to even call it a Wikipedia competitor is to give the half-assed project too much credit. It is not a Wikipedia “competitor” at all. It is a fully robotic, heartless regurgitation machine that cynically and indiscriminately sucks up the work of humanity to serve the interests, protect the ego, amplify the viewpoints, and further enrich the world’s wealthiest man. It is a totem of what Wikipedia could and would become if you were to strip all the humans out and hand it over to a robot; in that sense, Grokipedia is a useful warning because of the constant pressure and attacks by AI slop purveyors to push AI-generated content into Wikipedia.
And it is only getting attention, of course, because Elon Musk does represent an actual threat to Wikipedia through his political power, wealth, and obsession with the website, as well as the fact that he owns a huge social media platform…”
