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As Elon Musk tries to attract users to his online AI-powered encyclopedia, Wikipedia is leaning into the human qualities of its database.
According to its homepage, Grokipedia currently features approximately 885,000 articles, which is far from what Wikipedia hosts.
“The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself,” said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. “Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power.”
On Monday, Oct. 27, Elon Musk launched an AI-generated alternative to Wikipedia. Called Grokipedia, the service has already been accused of copying content verbatim from its rival
Despite Elon Musk's claims that Wikipedia was 'extremely left-biased,' the first entries in Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia, reveal a marked right-wing bias, particularly on topics such as Black Lives Matter.