🤖 Grokipedia: Musk's AI Encyclopedia vs. Wikipedia

The provided sources offer a multi-faceted view of Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia launched by Elon Musk’s xAI in October 2025 as a self-proclaimed less-biased alternative to Wikipedia. Critics view Grokipedia as a politically motivated weapon designed to codify a far-right worldview and manipulate reality, citing instances of factual errors and content skewed toward Musk’s personal views on topics like gender and his own biography, which one source calls a “cult of Elon.” The sources confirm Grokipedia is built upon xAI’s Grok Large Language Model (LLM), which, in the context of neural networks, is also discussed in an academic paper exploring the "grokking" phenomenon—a delayed generalization process in AI likened to the structural relaxation of glass. Despite the criticism of bias and lack of transparency regarding its AI-generated content (which is often derived from Wikipedia itself), some early users and even Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger have praised Grokipedia for offering a more neutral tone on controversial subjects. Ultimately, the sources frame the launch as a battle for epistemic supremacy between Wikipedia's human-curated consensus and Musk's opaque, AI-driven knowledge base.