Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has launched an AI-generated online encyclopedia called ‘Grokipedia’ as a challenger to Wikipedia, and the right-wing bias is glaring.

Musk, owner of X – formerly known as Twitter – and boss of SpaceX and Tesla, announced the new encyclopaedia on Tuesday (28 October) and shared a link to it to his 228 million followers.

He wrote “Version 1.0 will be 10X better” than the crowd-sourced market leader Wikipedia “but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo”.

In subsequent posts, Musk wrote that Grokipedia will “exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy” and the goal of it is “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”, adding: “We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that

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