Wikipedia, Musk and Grokipedia
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Musk and his allies have accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing bias, and the billionaire has even labeled it “Wokepedia.”
As Elon Musk tries to attract users to his online AI-powered encyclopedia, Wikipedia is leaning into the human qualities of its database.
Grokipedia launched on Oct. 27 and was designed by Elon Musk to host more far-right political views than the "woke" ones that Wikipedia is claimed to host.
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.
Grokipedia, which briefly crashed after its launch, tallied more than 800,000 AI-generated encyclopedia entries, compared with Wikipedia’s nearly 8 million human-written ones.
Wikipedia’s human traffic is declining as more people rely on AI tools for answers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, says that shifts in how people search for information online are cutting into its human traffic.
Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human knowledge
Wikipedia has seen a decline in users this year due to artificial intelligence summaries in search engine results, as well as the growing popularity of social media, according to a blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that oversees the free online encyclopedia.