Elon Musk said Tuesday that his artificial intelligence firm xAI is building “Grokipedia” – an open-source digital encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia, which the tech tycoon has repeatedly accused of leftist bias.
The Tesla founder boasted that the new encyclopedia – named after xAI’s chatbot Grok – “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.”
“Join @xAI and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia! This will be available to the public with no limits on use,” Musk wrote in a post on X.
Elon Musk said Tuesday that his artificial intelligence firm, xAI, is building “Grokipedia.” Getty Images
Wikipedia did not immediately reply to The Post’s request for remark.
Musk’s attacks on so-called “Wokipedia” are nothing new.
In 2023, he supplied to buy the platform for $1 billion – on the situation it modified its identify to “Dickipedia.”
Musk’s attacks on so-called “Wokeipedia” are nothing new. GoodPics – stock.adobe.com
Last 12 months, he blasted the web site as “broken” after Wikipedia created a web page called “Donald Trump and fascism” that covers “significant academic and political debate over whether Donald Trump…can be considered a fascist.”
Meanwhile, Wikipedia confronted recent attacks online this week after the web site’s co-founder, Larry Sanger — who has repeatedly slammed Wikipedia as “propaganda” — appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast and issued recent criticism of the digital encyclopedia.
Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002 a 12 months after launching the web site, accused it of a censorship marketing campaign concentrating on conservatives and libertarians.
Musk blasted the web site as “broken” after Wikipedia created a web page called “Donald Trump and fascism.” Wikipedia
“There is a whole army of administrators – hundreds of them – who are constantly blocking people that they have ideological disagreements with,” he said during an episode of Carlson’s podcast on Monday.
Sanger said he was unaware if there were “puppet masters that were controlling the process.”
Musk said the new digital encyclopedia would be named after xAI’s chatbot Grok. AFP via Getty Images
But he nodded to Virgil Griffith – a former Ethereum programmer jailed for conspiring to help North Korea in evading sanctions – who created a software identified as Wiki Scanner that revealed CIA computer systems had been used to make edits on Wikipedia pages in the early 2000s.
“They were able to find a whole bunch of edits coming from Langley,” Sanger said, a reference to the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters.