The Tesla boss tweeted that his xAI outfit is building the service, which he insists will be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia. Musk has been complaining for ages that Wikipedia is “woke” and even said it should be defunded. Earlier this year he went ballistic when the site added an entry about him making a Nazi-style salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The plan is to use xAI’s Grok chatbot, which Musk already built as an alternative to ChatGPT, to generate and maintain entries which were more in line with his politics. Grok has been trained on web data, including the cesspit of public tweets, and Musk claims it can outdo the human fake penis experts with phoney doctorates who keep Wikipedia ticking.
In a podcast earlier this month, Musk said: “Grok is using heavy amounts of inference compute to look at, as an example, a Wikipedia page, what is true, partially true, or false, or missing in this page. Now rewrite the page to correct, remove the falsehoods, correct the half-truths, and add the missing context.”
He neglected to mention Grok’s habit of praising Hitler.
Musk did not give any details on when Grokipedia will appear, but it is certain to appeal to Musk fanboys and right-wing pundits who believe Wikipedia has a liberal bias.
Wikipedia has had plenty of rows among its community editors, but its defenders, including founder Jimmy Wales, insist it is focused on accuracy. Wales has been one of Musk’s harshest critics, saying in 2023 that the platform formerly known as Twitter had become “overrun by trolls and lunatics.”
Wikipedia off its perch, he has a job on his hands. The site is the seventh most-visited on the planet even if it is run by people who refuse to believe that Fudzilla is real, and spent years trying to kill off Mike Magee.
This seems like yet another one of Musk's cunning plans based on stealing other people's ideas and fail to go anywhere. Last month Musk also promised to take on Microsoft with a new AI-driven outfit he wants to call Macrohard and we are still awaiting the affordable robot which has been years coming .