Elon Musk said Tuesday that his artificial intelligence firm xAI is building “Grokipedia” – an open-source digital encyclopedia to rival Wikipedia, which the tech tycoon has repeatedly accused of leftist bias.
The Tesla founder boasted that the new encyclopedia – named after xAI’s chatbot Grok – “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.”
“Join @xAI and help build Grokipedia, an open source knowledge repository that is vastly better than Wikipedia! This will be available to the public with no limits on use,” Musk wrote in a post on X.
Wikipedia did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Musk’s attacks on so-called “Wokipedia” are nothing new.
In 2023, he offered to buy the platform for $1 billion – on the condition it changed its name to “Dickipedia.”
Last year, he blasted the site as “broken” after Wikipedia created a page called “Donald Trump and fascism” that covers “significant academic and political debate over whether Donald Trump…can be considered a fascist.”
Meanwhile, Wikipedia faced fresh attacks online this week after the site’s co-founder, Larry Sanger — who has repeatedly slammed Wikipedia as “propaganda” — appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast and issued fresh criticism of the digital encyclopedia.
Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002 a year after launching the site, accused it of a censorship campaign targeting conservatives and libertarians.
“There is a whole army of administrators – hundreds of them – who are constantly blocking people that they have ideological disagreements with,” he said during an episode of Carlson’s podcast on Monday.
Sanger said he was unaware if there were “puppet masters that were controlling the process.”
But he nodded to Virgil Griffith – a former Ethereum programmer jailed for conspiring to assist North Korea in evading sanctions – who created a tool known as Wiki Scanner that revealed CIA computers had been used to make edits on Wikipedia pages in the early 2000s.
“They were able to find a whole bunch of edits coming from Langley,” Sanger said, a reference to the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters.
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