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Grokipedia touts AI-powered depth. The reality: heavily borrowed Wikipedia entries.

Poynter · Loreben Tuquero · last updated

In the age of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted search engines, Wikipedia remains an information repository authored by humans.

Elon Musk, billionaire and former advisor to President Donald Trump, sought to create an AI-powered alternative: Grokipedia.

“Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy,” Musk posted on X the day after his site went live Oct. 27.

Yet PolitiFact found Grokipedia’s articles are often almost entirely lifted from Wikipedia. And when the entries differ, Grokipedia’s information quality and sourcing is problematic and error-prone, making it a less reliable research tool.

 

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