Last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-powered platform, to rival online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

“Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy,” Musk posted on X the day after his site went live on October 27.

In the age of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted search engines, Wikipedia remains an information repository authored by humans.

Yet PolitiFact found Grokipedia’s articles are often almost entirely lifted from Wikipedia. And when the entries differ, Grokipedia’s information quality and sourcing are problematic and error-prone, making it a less reliable research tool.

Musk said on an October 31 episode of the “All-In” tech and business podcast that his team instructed his company’s chatbot

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