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Jess Kinghorn

Grokipedia claims to be 'a massive improvement over Wikipedia' but sure loves to copy its homework

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A screenshot of the 0.1 launch version of Grokipedia's landing page.

Grokipedia, xAI'sAI-powered online encyclopaedia, is now live. Version 0.1 features an extremely basic white-text-on-a-black-background look and stripped back page layouts, plus more than 885,000 articles.

But despite Elon Musk's recent claim that Grokipedia "will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia," much of the content seems to have come directly from it (via The Verge). In addition to a number of pages seemingly copied across verbatim, you'll also see a disclaimer that reads, "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License" at the bottom of many Grokipedia articles.

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