Should Wikipedia be afraid? Elon Musk recently materialized a desire he had already mentioned last year, to launch a competitor on Wikipedia. The collaborative encyclopedia is attacked by conservative circles and very well for an alleged “awake” bias.
Elon Musk hate Wikipedia for a good reason: the page dedicated to him is far from being in his favor, remembering his escapes and ideological reversal.
An encyclopedia generated by AI
In 2024, he even asked his followers not to use online encyclopedia and no longer give him donations. Now you want to offer your own vision and announce “Grokipedia.”
As the name implies, this future encyclopedia will have pages generated by artificial intelligence and promises to be “an important improvement” of the Wikipedia model, announces the billionaire. To support their statements, he cites David Sacks from passing, an ultra conservative financial, answering questions from the YouTub Conspirator Larry Sanger.
In his words, he says, without proof, that Wikipedia would be “irreparably biased” and that the encyclopedia would be directed by “an army of leftist activists” opposing “any reasonable correction.”
Among the supporters of Elon Musk, this statement without the shadow of a foundation, particularly resonates. But if Grokipedia must see daylight, there is a risk that everything derails.
Because since its launch, Grok, the generative artificial intelligence imagined by Elon Musk and is described as “not politically correct”, has already been reviewed several times and, often, because he described his boss as an extreme right and extreme conspirator. Other times, these are statements to doubt the genocide of the Jews during World War II that made controversial.
With Grokipedia, the risk is, therefore, to face pages whose information will be far from being reliable and apolitical, as well as the rule on Wikipedia. Online encyclopedia is also considered a sufficiently reliable source for the generative AI competing in Grok to use it to train.
Source: BFM TV
