Grokipedia: Elon Musk’s AI alternative to Wikipedia may be just as biased

If Wikipedia reflects the biases of its human editors and their sources, AI has the same problem with the biases of its data, says Taha Yasseri

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, launched Grokipedia, a new project to rival Wikipedia on Monday.

Grokipedia has been described by Musk as a response to what he views as the “political and ideological bias” of Wikipedia. He has promised that it will provide more accurate and context-rich information by using xAI’s chatbot, Grok, to generate and verify content.

Is he right? The question of whether Wikipedia is biased has been debated since its creation in 2001.

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