Elon Musk has launched his own project, Grokipedia, as he promised, aiming to provide an alternative to Wikipedia. Reports indicate that many articles on Grokipedia are directly adapted or even fully copied from Wikipedia.
Pages about MacBook Air, PlayStation 5, and Lincoln Mark VIII include a note: "Content adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0". The texts often match the originals word for word.
Despite Musk's claims that Grokipedia will be an "improvement" over Wikipedia, the site currently resembles an early copy. The homepage features only a search bar, and the articles have a simple structure with headings and links. Editing materials is currently not possible – the "Edit" button appears only on certain pages and shows the history of changes without mentioning authors.
Some articles also feature altered phrasing, particularly regarding climate change. While Wikipedia notes a "near-unanimous scientific consensus", Grokipedia questions this, hinting at "coordinated information campaigns" that allegedly exaggerate the scale of the issue.
Wikimedia Foundation representative Lauren Dickinson commented:
"Even Grokipedia relies on Wikipedia's existence. Since 2001, Wikipedia has remained the backbone of knowledge on the internet – independent, transparent, and created by people".
The Grokipedia homepage states that the project currently contains about 885,000 articles – significantly less than the over 7 million in the English Wikipedia. The current version of the service is marked as v0.1.