Musk wants to launch Grokpedia, the 'right-wing' alternative to Wikipedia
The announcement made on X by the South African-born tycoon: 'Wikipedia is biased, an army of left-wing activists compiles biographies'
by Lorenzo Pace
"Grokipedia. Unbiased information for everyone'. It is not Elon Musk, the founder of Grok, the artificial intelligence of X, who launches it. But it is a user on social, who adds a message to Wikipedia: 'Should have accepted Musk's billion-dollar offer, but it's too late, rival is coming'.
A few hours later came the confirmation, posted by Musk himself on X: 'We are building Grokipedia. It will be a huge improvement'. For years, Musk has criticised Wikipedia for being deviant and 'woke'. And the announcement is also an opportunity to highlight a user's post against the online encyclopaedia founded in 2001. 'It is hopelessly biased,' it reads, 'an army army of left-wing activists who take over biographies and oppose any reasonable correction. To make matters even worse, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results and is now a trusted source for training artificial intelligence models. This is a huge problem'.
In the announcement post, Musk emphasises how important it is for his companies to expand further. "Frankly, it is a necessary step towards xAI's goal of understanding the Universe". Indeed, with his start-up company established two years ago, there are several open projects. And the consequence would be a flight of employees, an 'exodus' according to the Financial Times, due to the incessant demands and its political activism with Donald Trump and European far-right forces.
