Is Grokipedia the future of the Internet?
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI released the new AI-powered and open-source encyclopedia Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia. But what is Elon Musk planning to do with it, and why do we need an alternative if soon everyone will be using chatbots anyway?
The details
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Grokipedia was released on Tuesday, October 27, and contains more than 885,000 articles. Currently, however, it only contains articles in English.
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The AI-powered online encyclopedia has only about 10 percent of the content of the English Wikipedia (over 7 million English entries). Many articles are exact copies of Wikipedia articles, and others have slight differences.
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According to Elon Musk, the “[…] goal of Grok and Grokipedia.com is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. […]”.
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The idea of Grokipedia is simple: instead of community-driven editing, it uses AI for content creation and verification (fact-checked by Grok). In addition, Grokipedia currently has no images and consists of text and tables. Some text sections are very long.
Our thoughts
The headline is provocative, admittedly, but AI-generated content is a reality and will increase in the future. Soon, we will no longer be able to distinguish between human and AI-generated content on the internet.
The boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred. In our opinion, the free internet will shift towards AI-generated content. Real people will protect their content behind paywalls via services like Beehiiv*, Substack, or Steady*.
Time will tell whether people trust an AI-verified article more or one created through human collaboration.
Wikipedia already has fewer page views today than it did before the AI era because many people now use chatbots. Do you go to Wikipedia or use an AI chatbot?
More information: 🔗 X.com | Grokipedia
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