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The Past, Present, and Future of the Encyclopedia
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Get you a saloon that has the Encyclopedia Brittanica to settle bar fights.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Get you a saloon that has the Encyclopedia Brittanica to settle bar fights.
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Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, researchers say
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, researchers say
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
Grokipedia now featuring “live editing” with immediate (presumably AI-driven) acceptance of edits. Interesting approach to a project that ostensibly founded itself on AI’s ability to get things “right” more or less on its own. We’ll see where this goes…
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Grokipedia now featuring “live editing” with immediate (presumably AI-driven) acceptance of edits. Interesting approach to a project that ostensibly founded itself on AI’s ability to get things “right” more or less on its own. We’ll see where this goes…
Britannica AI reviewed favorably vs. ChatGPT
Britannica AI Versus ChatGPT A Factual Face Off | ImaginePro Blog
Discover how Britannica AI compares to ChatGPT for factual accuracy and detailed information. This review explores their performance on history literature and science questions.
www.imaginepro.ai
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Britannica AI reviewed favorably vs. ChatGPT
Great insights here from @stephenharrison.com!
Elon Musk Has His Own Encyclopedia Now. Well, We Read Some of the Entries …
He tried to buy Wikipedia. When that didn’t work, he made his own version—and it’s a mess.
slate.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great insights here from @stephenharrison.com!
The first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia to publish.
What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia
Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia to publish.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Key points in new Cornell Tech research:
56% of Grokipedia entries carry the Wikipedia CC license, suggesting wholesale ingestion
Grokipedia’s top 100 sources include fewer news outlets and more UGC (e.g. LinkedIn scraping)
Grokipedia has fewer citations overall, making it harder to check sources
56% of Grokipedia entries carry the Wikipedia CC license, suggesting wholesale ingestion
Grokipedia’s top 100 sources include fewer news outlets and more UGC (e.g. LinkedIn scraping)
Grokipedia has fewer citations overall, making it harder to check sources
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Key points in new Cornell Tech research:
56% of Grokipedia entries carry the Wikipedia CC license, suggesting wholesale ingestion
Grokipedia’s top 100 sources include fewer news outlets and more UGC (e.g. LinkedIn scraping)
Grokipedia has fewer citations overall, making it harder to check sources
56% of Grokipedia entries carry the Wikipedia CC license, suggesting wholesale ingestion
Grokipedia’s top 100 sources include fewer news outlets and more UGC (e.g. LinkedIn scraping)
Grokipedia has fewer citations overall, making it harder to check sources
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I think in the early days of Wikipedia there was an idea that it could be written like older encyclopedias. Going to a "everything must be cited" system in the English language version has been a large change.
September 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I think in the early days of Wikipedia there was an idea that it could be written like older encyclopedias. Going to a "everything must be cited" system in the English language version has been a large change.
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I think a generation of students heard "don't cite Wikipedia as a source" and internalized "Wikipedia is unreliable" rather than "encyclopedias are secondary sources, go cite the actual primary source".
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I think a generation of students heard "don't cite Wikipedia as a source" and internalized "Wikipedia is unreliable" rather than "encyclopedias are secondary sources, go cite the actual primary source".
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I used to love reading encyclopedias in elementary school. They were my own personal gifted and talented program.
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I used to love reading encyclopedias in elementary school. They were my own personal gifted and talented program.
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Which lucky KPop Demon Hunter is going to get Delusion–Frensen??
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Which lucky KPop Demon Hunter is going to get Delusion–Frensen??
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How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in W...📈🤖
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in W...📈🤖
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia? A Multi-Dimensional Textual and Structural Comparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in W...📈🤖
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899
The launch of Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI, was presented as a response to perceived ideological and structural biases in W...📈🤖
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
Grokipedia does not appear to cite a single printed (on paper) source throughout the entirety of the encyclopedia. This is not dramatically different from Wikipedia's reliance primarily upon open-source online sources, but rather further exacerbates the many extant problems with this philosophy.
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Grokipedia does not appear to cite a single printed (on paper) source throughout the entirety of the encyclopedia. This is not dramatically different from Wikipedia's reliance primarily upon open-source online sources, but rather further exacerbates the many extant problems with this philosophy.
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Grokipedia 'Its knowledge culture is very iterative where making mistakes is a feature, not a bug. By contrast, the academic world is about building trust over time and scholarship over long periods during which the illusion that you know everything cracks'
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #Grokipedia 'Its knowledge culture is very iterative where making mistakes is a feature, not a bug. By contrast, the academic world is about building trust over time and scholarship over long periods during which the illusion that you know everything cracks'
The practice of building a new encyclopedia by directly pulling entire articles from extant competitors is by no means novel (Wikipedia originally did the same with the 11th edition of Britannica). #Grokipedia may, however, be the first encyclopedia in centuries to include zero cross-referencing.
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The practice of building a new encyclopedia by directly pulling entire articles from extant competitors is by no means novel (Wikipedia originally did the same with the 11th edition of Britannica). #Grokipedia may, however, be the first encyclopedia in centuries to include zero cross-referencing.
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
Ironic.
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
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Elon Musk says he's launching a competitor to Wikipedia called Grokipedia
Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster
Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?
gizmodo.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Elon Musk says he's launching a competitor to Wikipedia called Grokipedia
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Unlike Twitter, these bad boys never go down.
May 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Unlike Twitter, these bad boys never go down.
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In a new feature by Observer, Wikimedia Foundation leaders speak candidly about how Wikipedia – built by people, not machines – has unintentionally become the powerhouse of the AI revolution and the potential pitfalls of using its content without attribution. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
May 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In a new feature by Observer, Wikimedia Foundation leaders speak candidly about how Wikipedia – built by people, not machines – has unintentionally become the powerhouse of the AI revolution and the potential pitfalls of using its content without attribution. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
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Excuse you, it was actually a phase where I got distracted by all the other cool entries in the World Book Encyclopedia every time I had to look something up for a project. There was nothing more riveting on God's green earth than whatever was immediately alphabetically before my homework subject.
Are you neurotypical or did you have a phase where you would read the dictionary and/or thesaurus for fun?
January 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Excuse you, it was actually a phase where I got distracted by all the other cool entries in the World Book Encyclopedia every time I had to look something up for a project. There was nothing more riveting on God's green earth than whatever was immediately alphabetically before my homework subject.