In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia

Users have found that Grokipedia lifts large chunks from Wikipedia, contains numerous factual errors and promotes Musk's favoured rightwing talking points. Users have found that Grokipedia lifts large chunks from Wikipedia, contains numerous factual errors and promotes Musk's favoured rightwing talking points. In Grok we don't trust: academics assess Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia T he eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history at Cambridge (a post endowed by Henry VIII) and supervised theses on Bismarck's social policy. That was some of what you could learn from Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia launched last week by the world's richest person, Elon Musk . The problem was, as Prof Evans discovered when he logged on to check his own entry, all these facts were false.