Elon Musk has launched his own encyclopedia called Grokipedia, based on the Grok technology, as promised. According to The Verge, many of Grokipedia's articles are either adapted or even directly copied from Wikipedia.
On pages about topics such as the MacBook Air, PlayStation 5, and Lincoln Mark VIII, a note reads: "Content adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0". Often, the texts match the originals word for word.
Despite Musk's claims that Grokipedia will be an "improvement" over Wikipedia, the site currently resembles an early version of its predecessor. The homepage features only a search bar, and the articles have a simple structure with subheadings and links. Editing materials is currently not possible—the "Edit" button appears only on some pages and displays the history of changes without author attribution.
Some articles also contain altered wording, particularly regarding climate change. While Wikipedia mentions an "almost unanimous scientific consensus", Grokipedia questions this and hints at "coordinated information campaigns" that allegedly exaggerate the scale of the issue.
Wikimedia Foundation representative Lauren Dickinson commented to The Verge:
"Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Since 2001, Wikipedia has remained the backbone of knowledge on the internet—independent, transparent, and created by people".
The Grokipedia homepage states that the project currently contains about 885,000 articles—significantly fewer than over 7 million in the English Wikipedia. The current version of the service is labeled as v0.1.