{"id":48091,"date":"2025-10-01T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48091"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:28:31","slug":"musk-says-xai-building-grokipedia-after-criticizing-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48091","title":{"rendered":"Musk says xAI building \u2018Grokipedia\u2019 after criticizing Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elon Musk\u2002<\/u><\/a>said Tuesday that his AI company xAI is building \u201cGrokipedia\u201d after he and his allies accused Wikipedia of bias. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are building Grokipedia @xAI,\u201d Musk wrote on his social platform X. \u201cWill be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said his version of the online encyclopedia, apparently named after his AI chatbot Grok, would be an \u201copen source knowledge repository\u201d available to the public \u201cwith no limits on use.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk criticized Wikipedia on Tuesday as \u201cWokipedia\u201d following similar accusations from his allies. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks\u2002<\/u><\/a>slammed the site as \u201chopelessly biased.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections,\u201d Sacks alleged on X. \u201cMagnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it\u2019s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya,<\/u><\/a> who hosts the \u201cAll-In\u201d podcast with Sacks, also suggested Wikipedia was engaged in \u201cone sided censorship.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest uproar stems from conservative pundit Tucker Carlson\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>recent interview with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger,<\/u><\/a> who has been a critic of the project since leaving in 2002. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the first time that Musk has taken aim at Wikipedia. The billionaire, who has previously clashed with the site\u2019s other co-founder Jimmy Wales,<\/u><\/a> offered to buy the site<\/u><\/a> for $1 billion in October 2023 on the condition that it change its name to \u201cDickipedia.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, said in a statement that its values \u201creflect our unwavering commitment to reliable knowledge, neutrality, and constant improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWikipedia informs; it does not persuade,\u201d it added. \u201cSome recent commentary overlooks the constant, high-quality volunteer oversight and strong safeguards already in place on Wikipedia. These protections allow volunteer editors to exercise their right to free expression, while upholding knowledge integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elon Musk\u2002said Tuesday that his AI company xAI is building \u201cGrokipedia\u201d after he and his allies accused Wikipedia of bias.  \u201cWe are building Grokipedia @xAI,\u201d Musk wrote on his social platform X. \u201cWill be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.\u201d  The Tesla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[1330,21026,34820],"class_list":["post-48091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-musk","tag-wikipedia","tag-xai-grokipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48093,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48091\/revisions\/48093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}