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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Jason Wilson

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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Grokipedia now has more than 800,000 entries, ‘factchecked’ by xAI’s Grok. Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images

Entries in Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia variously promote white nationalist talking points, praise neo-Nazis and other far-right figures, promote racist ideologies and white supremacist regimes, and attempt to revive concepts and approaches historically associated with scientific racism, a Guardian analysis has found.

The tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally recently launched xAI’s AI-generated Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that Musk has often attacked but that has long been a key feature of the internet.

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