ChatGPT pulls answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun appearing in ChatGPT answers.

xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk complained about Wikipedia’s anti-conservative bias. Journalists quickly noticed that although many articles appeared to be so Copied directly from WikipediaAlso, Grokipedia He claimed That pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, provided “ideological justifications” for slavery, and used derogatory terms for transgender people.

Everything you would expect from an encyclopedia linked to a chatbot She described herself as “Mika Hitler” It was used to Flooding X with deep sexual fakes. However, its content now appears to be making its way out of Musk’s ecosystem The Guardian reports GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions.

The Guardian says ChatGPT did just that no Cite Grokipedia when asked about topics whose inaccuracies have been widely reported — topics like the January 6 insurrection or the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, it has been cited in our obscure topics, including allegations regarding Sir Richard Evans The Guardian newspaper has previously debunked it. (Claude from Anthropic also seems to cite Grokipedia to answer some queries.)

An OpenAI spokesperson told The Guardian that it “aims to draw on a wide range of publicly available sources and perspectives.”