Wikipedia, Musk and Grokipedia
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Wikipedia's traffic is down — but there's reason to be hopeful for its future, even with Elon Musk nipping at its heels with its new Grokipedia.
Musk and his allies have accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing bias, and the billionaire has even labeled it “Wokepedia.”
Whatever your feelings about it, we are heading into a somewhat different digital world thanks to AI. I'm ridiculously resistant to changing my habits, and even I am starting to consider keeping an AI chatbot open rather than Google for quick research.
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.
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.
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.
Jimmy Wales, internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, reveals major changes coming to the web’s biggest bank of human knowledge
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