X's Grokipedia Is Online After It Briefly Crashed Out

Grokipedia, nan encyclopedia powered by xAI's adjunct Grok concisely went online Monday, earlier it promptly crashed. At nan clip of this writing, nan website appears to beryllium working, and contains much than 885,000 articles, according to a antagonistic connected its homepage.

Musk, who has antecedently railed against Wikipedia, has described nan task arsenic a "a basal measurement towards nan xAI extremity of knowing nan Universe." Musk and his friends person agelong claimed that Wikipedia is biased. Wikipedia laminitis Jimmy Wales has called Musk's claims astir nan crowd-sourced encyclopedia "factually incorrect."

Musk said last week that Grokipedia's motorboat had been delayed successful bid "to do much activity to purge retired nan propaganda." Notably, immoderate articles are astir identical to their entries successful Wikipedia, though Grokipedia doesn’t incorporate in-line links to sources successful nan aforesaid format. Such entries do person a mini disclaimer that “the contented is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed nether Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.”

In different cases, societal media users person already spotted instances wherever Musk’s worldview is much evident successful nan "AI-powered encyclopedia." Here's an excerpt from nan introduction for "university," arsenic captured by Bluesky personification Jeremy Cohen.

And here's a screenshot of Grokipedia's introduction for Musk, which was captured by Bleusky personification Miles Lee.

X didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.