Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Grokipedia Launches To Combat Media Bias
Elon Musk has finally launched his AI-powered and “truth” focused answer to Wikipedia on Monday — Grokipedia — amid ongoing beef with the incumbent platform over its editorial practices.
In a series of posts via X on Monday following the launch, Musk stated that Grokipedia “is fully open source, so anyone can use it for anything at no cost” and that its goal is to “truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
“We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal,” Musk added.
One X user already noticed a difference between the articles about George Floyd, an African-American man who a Florida police officer killed during an arrest.
The user noticed that the first paragraph of the Grokipedia article highlighted Floyd’s extended criminal record, while the Wikipedia article emphasized that he was killed by a “white” police officer.
The service had been pushed back a few days, as Musk halted the launch to “purge out the propaganda” on Grokipedia.
It reportedly crashed temporarily after launch before promptly coming back online.
At the time of writing, the site is fully functional and claims to host over 885,000 articles so far.
While details are still sparse on the specific processes behind Grokipedia, at first glance, its AI-integrations mark quite a different organizational structure from Wikipedia.
In Grokipedia’s case, X’s Grok AI appears to take the lead in dictating and moderating content on the platform, while Wikipedia relies on a blend of editorial volunteers and automated tools.
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Musk explained on Monday that users will be able to add or request changes to content on Grokipedia, with the AI making the final decision.
“Grok generated about 1M articles using a lot of compute. You will be able to ask Grok to add/modify/delete articles and it will either take the action or tell you it won’t and why,” Musk wrote via X.
Musk has criticized Wikipedia on multiple occasions, alleging that it is biased toward the left side of politics and culture.
Notably, while Musk’s direct criticism is not mentioned in Grokipedia’s article on “Wikipedia,” it does highlight studies suggesting the platform has a left-wing bias.
“Studies analyzing article language and tone reveal deviations from neutrality, with right-leaning political figures and topics more frequently depicted negatively compared to left-leaning counterparts, suggesting the policies do not fully mitigate ideological skews arising from editor demographics and source selection,” the article reads.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia’s article on Grokipedia cites concerns from the critics that Grokipedia has the potential to be slanted toward “far-right” perspectives of Elon Musk.
“Critics have highlighted entries that promote far-right perspectives or favor Musk’s viewpoints.[7] NBC News noted that the Grokipedia entry for Musk did not mention the hand gesture he made in January 2025, which many viewed as a Nazi salute, while Wikipedia’s article does,[5]” the Wikipedia article about Grokipedia reads.
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