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The internet compares Grokipedia and Wikipedia

Megan Trotter
Megan Trotter
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Earlier this week, Elon Musk introduced Grokipedia, an AI-powered online encyclopedia designed to rival Wikipedia. As users began exploring the new platform, social media quickly buzzed with comparisons between the information offered by the two sites.

Musk, who has called Wikipedia “filled with left-wing propaganda,” according to the Associated Press, has been posting side-by-side screenshots of its search results, insisting that Grok provides “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

As the public weighs the political thinking behind AI-powered model’s information, TribLive gathered together some of the Internet’s more controversial search results.

The Grokipedia site states that it has 885,279 articles from which it gathers its information from, while Wikipedia, says it has more than 7 million articles in English alone.

Some have pointed out that the two platforms have almost identical responses to the same prompts.

“Grokipedia rips off directly from Wikipedia, word for word, formatting, structure, the whole thing,” said one user who posted a comparison of the search results for the Miller effect.

The same user also listed a series of concerns about the how information was adapted and changed before being generated for the public.

“There is no way to know if Grok has changed something subtle, or it’s 100% verbatim. There is no message to that effect. Saying ‘Fact checked by Grok 2 days ago’ is the encyclopedic equivalent of ‘trust me bro.’ Bottom of the page says ‘The content is adapted from Wikipedia.’ HOW ‘adapted’ is it? Is it a 100% copy? 99%, 90%? What’s changed and how?,” the post read.

One user compared the results of a search on stereotype threats.

“Grokipedia’s article is 1,000 words longer, but cites about fewer sources (71 vs. 109). All of Wikipedia’s sources are published in scholarly journals or books, while Grokipedia cites blog posts and even tweets written by academics,” the post said.

Others have a drastically different opinion, stating that Grokipedia’s information is “more accurate than Wikipedia.”

Musk himself reposted a comparison of the search results for George Floyd.

The post pointed out the differences in Wikipedia’s first paragraph on George Floyd, which described Floyd as “an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” The first paragraph from Grokipedia which describes him as “an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession and theft in Texas from 1997 to 2007.”

One user wrote, “Just five minutes on Grokipedia reveals that Wikipedia has been pushing far-left talking points for years, and Grokipedia is to the right of that - toward the center. Wikipedia consistently demonizes prominent voices on the right within the first few sentences,” in a post.

Some other popular topics compared included the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, race and intelligence and the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Megan Trotter is a TribLive staff writer. She can be reached at mtrotter@triblive.com.

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