Grokipedia: Elon Musk promises a more reliable encyclopedia than Wikipedia
After making a sensation with The Boring Company in 2018 where he had presented a flame launcher, Elon Musk proved several times that he did not hesitate to go to the end of his wildest projects, especially with the Space X project.
But this time, as he announced on the social network X, the billionaire may well attack Wikipedia with a alternative called “Grokipedia”. And if it may seem to be a simple joke at first, Elon Musk seems to be decided to attack online knowledge …
An encyclopedia reviewed by Xai’s artificial intelligence
In the message he published on X, Elon Musk presented Grokipedia as a Wikipedia’s “Massive improvement”which he regularly accuses of being biased and influenced by a progressive ideology. According to him, this tool is a step towards the wider ambition of XAI which would consist in Understand the universe thanks to artificial intelligence.
To build this project, Elon Musk plans to rely on Grok. AI would be capable ofAnalyze existing articlesd’evaluate their degree of veracitythen rewrite content by removing errors, in Correcting half-truths and adding missing details.
Indeed, the billionaire estimates that Grok can reproduce or even exceed, the collaborative work of volunteers who animate Wikipedia for more than twenty years.
A new project in continuity with Elon Musk’s ambitions?
This announcement is part of a series of confrontations carried out by Elon Musk against technological and digital giants. After having launched Grok in response to Chatgpt, and having mentioned the creation of “Macrohard” to compete with Microsoft last August, the businessman now aims One of the most consulted platforms in the world…
Even today, Wikipedia is in the top 10 most visited sites on the planet, and operates thanks to an active community of contributors and the donations collected by the Foundation Wikimedia.
In his message, Elon Musk did not fail to question this financing modelgoing so far as to joke in 2023 by offering a billion dollars if the site changed its name for “dickipedia”.
The fact remains that Grok is not free from controversy, and in recent months, the Elon Musk AI has slipped several times, going so far as to place Elon Musk himself among the ” most harmful personalities In the United States. What question very seriously about the ability of Grokipedia to produce really reliable and bias information…
