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fliptop [soylentnews.org] writes:

Elon Musk's anti-woke alternative to Wikipedia -- an aspiration he announced less than a month ago -- went live on Monday, with "Grokipedia" already boasting nearly 900,000 articles by the end of its first day [zerohedge.com]:

"The goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal," Musk wrote on X [x.com], referring to the launch-day Grokipedia as Version 0.1, and promising that "Version 1.0 will be 10X better [x.com]."

Grokipedia is powered by xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence company that also drives the generative AI "Grok" chatbot. Many of the pages we sampled are extremely comprehensive, detailed and lengthy. Journalists and social media users quickly set out to compare how the two sites differ in covering controversial [x.com] topics. For example, regarding gender transition, the New York Times reported that "[Grokipedia] said medical treatment for transgender people was based on evidence that was 'limited and of low quality' [nytimes.com] [while] Wikipedia’s corresponding page said scientific understanding of the subject had existed for decades." We also observed that Grokipedia's page covers theories that the huge spike in trans identification since the early 2010s may be driven by "social influence or contagion."

[...] While Grokipedia content is being created by AI, Wikipedia content is written by millions of volunteer contributors, whose sourcing is limited by an official color-coded list [wikipedia.org] of sites given grades such as "generally reliable" (green) or "generally unreliable" (red). Hardcore leftist outlets Mother Jones and the SPLC get the top green rating, as do MSNBC and CNN. Fox News gets a middling yellow "marginally reliable" rating, while ZeroHedge is red due to "propagation of conspiracy theories." Antiwar.com [antiwar.com], which we've found to be exceedingly well-sourced while observing high journalistic standards, is also off-limits.

Previously:

• Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With 'Grokipedia' [soylentnews.org]
• He Co-founded Wikipedia, Now He Says the Site Needs a Radical Change [soylentnews.org]

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