Grokepedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk

On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” came to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a less biased, less vigilant version of Wikipedia. Musk’s goal? “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

In both form and style, Grokipedia bears a striking resemblance to Wikipedia, although it is a very basic version. Entries are organized with titles, subtitles, citations, and a list of sources at the end. Each article also claims to have been fact-checked by Grok, xAI’s chatbot, though it’s not clear what “fact-checking” includes. It is also unclear how the 885,279 entries, as currently listed on Grokipedia, were made Homeis created by what or who.

Much of the content on Grokipedia also looks suspiciously similar to Wikipedia. In many cases, the articles are practically — And sometimes literally – Reproduction of Wikipedia counterparts. But for articles that address topics that conflict with Musk’s personal worldview, many of the articles take a noticeably different tone. Here, Grokepedia suddenly veers toward right-wing talking points, factual inaccuracies, mainstream media criticism, and baseless conspiracy theories. At times, Grokipedia is overtly racist and transphobic. But the musk comes out fine. He and his companies are often painted in pink.

There is a pattern that emerges in other entries covering established science. on Vaccines and autism page, Wikipedia states that “extensive investigation into vaccines and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine components do not cause autism” and notes the “overwhelming consensus that vaccines are safe” from scientists and medical bodies such as the World Health Organization, the CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration. Grokipedia is more than that Careful. His entry merely rejects the idea that MMR vaccines cause autism, he lends credence to so-called vaccine-skeptical views by calling the idea a “hypothesis,” and the only reference to scientific consensus is to say how a recent CDC contract indicates “sustained political momentum despite opposition from mainstream scientific consensus bodies.” As for the origins of Covid, Grokipedia He again failed to acknowledge the consensus and amplified suggestions that the virus was engineered, instead Wikipedia He repeatedly describes genome engineering claims as “misinformation or misrepresentation of scientific evidence.”

Likewise, Grokepedia’s entry on climate change is another sign that Musk may inhabit a world with a more fungible concept of reality. like Edge Jay Peters NotesGrookipedia ignores what Wikipedia says is “near-unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that it is caused by human activities” to instead highlight “increasing public alarm” caused by the media and advocacy organizations like Greenpeace.

These scientific Grokipedia entries look like quirky Wikipedia articles, but more political entries are a more sinister departure. Grokipedia’s entry Transgender The term “transgender” is thrown around several times. Wikipedia, meanwhile, Notes That the term “came to be viewed as pejorative.”

Unlike Wikipedia Enter Chelsea Manning, a whistleblower and former US Army intelligence analyst who shared classified intelligence with WikiLeaks in 2010, Login to Grokipedia There are dead names in her life and he misses her for a long time.

like spotted On Bluesky, Grokipedia entry on Race and intelligence He claims that science shows that some races are more intelligent than others, and even lists so-called IQ scores for different races. Wikipedia entry At the same time, it indicates that differences in intelligence scores cannot be explained by genetics. (Grokipedia writes that “the extent to which genetics contributes to differences between groups remains controversial.”) The Politics section of the Grokipedia entry also cites the pseudoscientific journal Humanity Quarterlyknown for publishing “Race science” and its connections to white nationalism.

While it is called Wikipedia January 6 attack on the US Capitol “Attempted self-coup” GrokipediaThe language of “widespread allegations of voting irregularities” appears to justify the riots by supporters of President Donald Trump, and downplays the violence by saying that “most” of the insurrectionists “did not carry firearms and the incursion was cleared within hours.” Instead, Wikipedia readers will learn that Congress itself Found The riot is an unsuccessful, but purposeful, part of Trump’s plan to overturn the election.

Wikipedia describes George Floyd as a black man killed by a white police officer in an event that sparked a nationwide wave of protests against police brutality and racism. on GrokipediaFloyd became known for his criminal record, beginning with a sentence that is difficult to read as intentionally racist: “George Perry Floyd, Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an American man with a lengthy criminal record including convictions for armed robbery, drug possession, and robbery in Texas from 1997 to 2007.” Readers do not know that Floyd was killed until the fourth sentence of the Grockipedia entry.

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is noticeably absent from Grokipedia, which is odd considering that Elon Musk ran the short-lived quasi-governmental agency that President Trump tasked with eliminating waste in the federal government. (Grokipedia directs users to Shiba Inu Internet meme instead of.) Wikipedia readers DOGE’s role in mass federal layoffs and dismantling of long-established federal agencies is recognizable, despite DOGE’s unclear governmental authority.

At least one person comes off very well: Musk. The Grokipedia entries about him and his works look as if an editor had airbrushed Wikipedia articles. There is no mention of his father’s interests in emeralds on his Grokipedia site biographyFor example, downplaying his family’s wealth as “relative wealth.” Wikipedia, meanwhile, makes Three mentions of Emerald, excluding citations, describe his family as “wealthy.” He also notes that his grandfather held pro-Nazi and apartheid views, details absent from Grokipedia.

His companies and products fare better on Grokipedia. On the whole, it is much longer. The article about Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, is four times as tall as its Wikipedia counterpart. Neuralink article triple, Tesla’s Cybertruck almost double. The language is more satisfying, too. The entry covering SpaceX makes no mention of Musk’s failed efforts to acquire the technology from Russia and paints its environmental problems in a much more favorable light than Wikipedia. Grokipedia’s Cybertruck page barely mentions a series of safety issues or recalls, instead criticizing the media for being biased against Tesla and focusing on outside complaints, while the Optimus page pays much less attention to criticisms regarding Musk’s outlandish predictions, timelines, and hype.