Grokipedia was immediately criticized by Wiki and Wired upon its launch
Author: Jennifer Asensio Published
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI launched Grokipedia. The website is intended to be an online crowdsourced encyclopedia and knowledge base. It is also a direct competitor to Wikipedia, which has angered Wikipedia and anti-Musk media sites such as wired.
Grokipedia works by automating fact-checking, gathering information from the internet, and assembling reference articles based on the gathered information. Users cannot edit directly, but can challenge and submit corrections for consideration. This is in contrast to Wikipedia, which can be edited directly by users.
Musk and opposition media
Musk and others, including Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have accused the Wikipedia model of being abused by institutions to promote certain views and demonize others. Musk said Grokipedia was specifically designed to “clear out” the same type of “propaganda.”
Wikipedia and wired The response was quick, trying to discredit Grokipedia. Ironically, Wikipedia criticized Grokipedia for using Wikipedia’s own archives as the basis for some of its articles. Wikipedia and wired It also accused Grokipedia of being “right-leaning” and only promoting Musk’s views. wired shared several articles they objected to, such as one about transgender issues that included the word “transgenderism,” and one about slavery that they said criticized the 1619 Project. Wikipedia criticized Grokipedia for not including Musk’s alleged “Nazi salute” in his biography.
encyclopedia supporter
Although Wikipedia and wired Grokipedia, which attempts to tell the story of public opinion, has been welcomed by many media people. Larry Sanger, who left Wikipedia because he felt it was ideologically embodied, was particularly excited about it, asking Musk questions about how Grokipedia scrapes data on the internet. World of Warcraft co-developer Mark Kern was so confused that he made several posts claiming that Grokipedia would change everything. Writer Larry Correia, like Sanger, compared his entries in Wiki and Grokipedia and found that Musk’s knowledge base was more balanced in explaining the Sad Puppies movement, which Correia organized to combat identity politics at the Hugo Awards and was stigmatized as a far-right movement.
Musk’s plan for Grokipedia is to organize all human knowledge to date and store it on a durable medium such as a stable oxide. Then he wanted to store copies on the moon and Mars. Musk’s ambition to take humanity off Earth is no secret, and starting his interstellar colonization by moving the Alexandria Digital Library into space will definitely prevent humanity from losing everything it has accumulated so far.
