ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is opening to look successful answers from ChatGPT.

xAI launched Grokipedia successful October, aft Musk had been complaining that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters soon noted that portion galore articles seemed to beryllium copied straight from Wikipedia, Grokipedia besides claimed that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offered “ideological justifications” for slavery, and utilized denigrating presumption for transgender people.

All that mightiness beryllium expected for an encyclopedia associated with a chatbot that described itself arsenic “Mecha Hitler” and was utilized to flood X with sexualized deepfakes. However, its contented present seems to beryllium making its mode extracurricular the Musk ecosystem, with the Guardian reporting that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia 9 times successful effect to much than a twelve antithetic questions.

The Guardian says ChatGPT did not mention Grokipedia erstwhile asked astir topics wherever its inaccuracy has been wide reported— topics similar the January 6 insurrection oregon the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, it was cited connected our obscure topics, including claims astir Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian had antecedently debunked. (Anthropic’s Claude besides appears to beryllium citing Grokipedia to reply immoderate queries.)

An OpenAI spokesperson told the Guardian that it “aims to gully from a wide scope of publically disposable sources and viewpoints.”

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