Grokipedia copies Wikipedia’s format, but loose fact-checking and weak citations leave many of its claims unreliable.
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.
Grokipedia will exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy https://t.co/Nt4M6vqEZu — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025
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
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