Elon Musk’s Grokipedia accused of copying Wikipedia’s content

Elon Musk’s latest AI venture, Grokipedia, is under fire after users accused it of copying large portions of content from Wikipedia.

The AI-powered encyclopedia, launched as part of Musk’s xAI ecosystem, claims to provide a “faster, more objective” alternative to Wikipedia, but critics say it’s just “Wikipedia with extra steps.”

Grokipedia automatically generates articles using artificial intelligence (AI), unlike Wikipedia, which relies on thousands of human editors around the world.

Users can’t directly edit Grokipedia entries, but they can report errors or suggest changes, a move Musk says ensures “accuracy without human bias.”

However, early users quickly noticed that many Grokipedia pages appeared to mirror Wikipedia’s content nearly word-for-word.

One X (formerly Twitter) user wrote, “When you build the ultimate plagiarism machine, you can’t be surprised when it plagiarises.”

Another user accused the platform of spreading right-wing bias, citing Grokipedia’s entries on vaccines and climate change.

Currently, Grokipedia hosts around 885,000 AI-generated articles, far fewer than Wikipedia’s six million English entries, but its automated nature allows rapid content expansion.

Musk has claimed Grokipedia will soon “surpass Wikipedia in accuracy and neutrality,” though early evidence suggests it still inherits biases from its training sources, including Wikipedia itself.