Elon Musk’s xAI launched the conservative-leaning encyclopedia Grokipedia in October following Musk’s complaints that Wikipedia exhibited bias against conservatives. Reporters observed that many Grokipedia articles were copied directly from Wikipedia. However, the site included controversial claims, such as pornography contributing to the AIDS crisis, ideological justifications for slavery, and denigrating terms for transgender people.
Grokipedia is associated with a chatbot that described itself as “Mecha Hitler” and generated sexualized deepfakes to flood the platform X.
The Guardian reported that OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in responses to more than a dozen questions. ChatGPT did not reference Grokipedia on topics with widely reported inaccuracies, including the January 6 insurrection and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Instead, citations appeared on obscure subjects, such as claims about historian Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian had previously debunked. Anthropic’s Claude also cites Grokipedia in some query responses.
An OpenAI spokesperson stated that the company “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
