On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a supposedly less woke and less biased version of Wikipedia. Musk’s goal? “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

In both format and style, Grokipedia bears a striking resemblance to Wikipedia, albeit a very basic version. Entries are organized with headings, subheadings, citations, and a list of sources at the end. Each article also claims to have been fact-checked by Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot, though it’s not clear what this “fact-checking” involves. Also unclear is how the 885,279 entries, as currently listed on Grokipedia’s homepage, are created and by what or whom.

Much of the content on Grokipedia is also suspic

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