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Grokipedia Launches, Sparks Concerns Over Wikipedia Copying
28 Oct 2025- xAI launched Grokipedia, a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia that reuses Wikipedia content, restricts public edits, sometimes alters facts (e.g., climate change), and raises copyright and accuracy concerns.
28 Oct 2025
xAI’s new encyclopedia, Grokipedia, is now live and looks — at least initially — a lot like Wikipedia: a simple homepage with a big search bar and article pages organized with headings, subheadings, and citations. Early functionality appears limited (edit controls are sparse and don’t let the public reliably propose changes), and many entries state that “Grok” has fact-checked them, a claim that raises concerns given how LLMs can produce false particulars.
Despite Elon Musk pitching Grokipedia as a major improvement over Wikipedia, The Verge found pages that explicitly say “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.” Some entries — notably pages for the MacBook Air, PlayStation 5, and the Lincoln Mark VIII — are nearly identical to their Wikipedia counterparts. The Wikimedia Foundation noted that “even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist” and emphasized Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven, transparent model. Musk earlier acknowledged Grok’s Wikipedia citations and said “we should have this fixed by end of year.”
Content differences go beyond copying: Grokipedia’s climate-change article downplays the “near-unanimous” scientific consensus found on Wikipedia. Grokipedia’s homepage ticker lists roughly 885,000 articles compared with Wikipedia’s ~7 million English pages; the site is labeled v0.1, indicating an early release and that these issues may evolve.
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xAI’s new encyclopedia, Grokipedia, is now live and looks — at least initially — a lot like Wikipedia: a simple homepage with a big search bar and article pages organized with headings, subheadings, and citations. Early functionality appears limited (edit controls are sparse and don’t let the public reliably propose changes), and many entries state that “Grok” has fact-checked them, a claim that raises concerns given how LLMs can produce false particulars.
Despite Elon Musk pitching Grokipedia as a major improvement over Wikipedia, The Verge found pages that explicitly say “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.” Some entries — notably pages for the MacBook Air, PlayStation 5, and the Lincoln Mark VIII — are nearly identical to their Wikipedia counterparts. The Wikimedia Foundation noted that “even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist” and emphasized Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven, transparent model. Musk earlier acknowledged Grok’s Wikipedia citations and said “we should have this fixed by end of year.”
Content differences go beyond copying: Grokipedia’s climate-change article downplays the “near-unanimous” scientific consensus found on Wikipedia. Grokipedia’s homepage ticker lists roughly 885,000 articles compared with Wikipedia’s ~7 million English pages; the site is labeled v0.1, indicating an early release and that these issues may evolve.
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