{"id":1546,"date":"2025-10-28T04:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/elon-musks-grokipedia-contains-copied-wikipedia-pages\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:46:59","slug":"elon-musks-grokipedia-contains-copied-wikipedia-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/elon-musks-grokipedia-contains-copied-wikipedia-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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xAI\u2019s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live<\/a>. The similarities go deeper than expected.<\/p>\n

Grokipedia\u2019s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven\u2019t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia lets users edit pages, but it doesn\u2019t appear that users can currently do that on Grokipedia; a big edit button at the top only appeared on a few pages for me, and when I clicked the button, it only showed edits that had already been completed without specifying who is actually suggested or made the changes, and I wasn\u2019t able to suggest changes of my own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Entries also claim that Grok has fact-checked them \u2014 a controversial idea, given how large language models tend to make up false \u201cfacts\u201d<\/a> \u2014 and how long ago the \u201cfact check\u201d happened.<\/p>\n

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However, despite Elon Musk promising that Grokipedia would be a \u201cmassive improvement\u201d over Wikipedia, some articles appear to be cribbing information from<\/em> Wikipedia. At the bottom of the page for the MacBook Air<\/a>, for example, you can see this message: \u201cThe content is adapted from Wikipedia<\/a>, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.\u201d In some cases, the cribbing goes farther than a rewrite: I\u2019ve also seen that message on pages for the PlayStation 5<\/a> and the Lincoln Mark VIII<\/a>, and both of those pages are almost identical \u2014 word-for-word, line-for-line \u2014 to their Wikipedia<\/a> counterparts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,\u201d Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge<\/em>. You can read Dickinson\u2019s full statement in full at the end of this article.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not the first time xAI\u2019s AI has been caught pointing to Wikipedia; last month, in response to an X user pointing out that Grok cites Wikipedia pages, Musk said<\/a> that \u201cwe should have this fixed by end of year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all Grokipedia articles are based directly on Wikipedia ones, and some will be controversial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While both sites have articles on climate change, for example, Wikipedia\u2019s page points out that<\/a> \u201cThere is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that this is caused by human activities. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Grokipedia\u2019s entry<\/a>, meanwhile, the word \u201cunanimous\u201d only appears in one paragraph: \u201cCritics contend that claims of near-unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic causes dominating recent climate change overstate agreement due to selective categorization in literature reviews.\u201d It suggests that the media and advocacy organizations like Greenpeace are \u201ccontributing to heightened public alarm,\u201d and are part of \u201ccoordinated efforts to frame the issue as an existential imperative, influencing public discourse and policy without always grounding in proportionate empirical evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a ticker at the bottom of the homepage, Grokipedia has over 885,000 articles; Wikipedia currently maintains around 7 million English pages. However, this is an early version of Grokipedia \u2014 it has a v0.1 version number on the homepage.<\/p>\n

Here is Dickinson\u2019s full statement:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works.<\/p>\n

Since 2001, Wikipedia has been the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it remains the only top website in the world run by a nonprofit. Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia\u2019s strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wikipedia\u2019s knowledge is \u2013 and always will be \u2013 human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding \u2013 one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wikipedia\u2019s nonprofit independence \u2014 with no ads and no data-selling \u2014 also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades.<\/p>\n

Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn\u2019t interfere with our work or mission. As we approach Wikipedia\u2019s 25th anniversary, Wikipedia will continue focusing on providing free, trustworthy knowledge built by its dedicated volunteer community. For more information about how Wikipedia works, visit our website<\/a> and new blog series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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