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Elon Musk has entered the knowledge arena, launching Grokipedia, a new online encyclopedia powered by his xAI models. As its name suggests, it is a direct competitor to the massively popular Wikipedia. In fact, Musk claims Grokipedia will \u201cpurge out the propaganda\u201d found on Wikipedia and exceed its rival \u201cby several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth, and accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the man who co-founded Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, disagrees with that statement. Speaking at a recent CNBC summit, Wales dismissed Grokipedia\u2019s threat, arguing that the underlying technology\u2014Large Language Models (LLMs)\u2014simply isn\u2019t capable of producing a reliable encyclopedia.<\/p>\n
Wikipedia\u2019s Jimmy Wales is not worried about Elon Musk\u2019s AI-powered Grokipedia<\/p>\n
Wales\u2019 skepticism stems from Grokipedia being powered by AI. He is aware of the flaws of LLMs like Grok and ChatGPT, which have a tendency to \u201cmake massive errors\u201d and fabricate sources\u2014namely \u201cAI hallucinations.\u201d Wales shared an example where a Wikipedia community member found that a source had used an LLM to generate book citations. This allegedly resulted in the chatbot \u201cvery happily mak[ing] up books.\u201d<\/p>\n
To test LLMs, Wales often queries obscure topics, such as the identity of his wife (a \u201cnot famous but known\u201d figure in British politics). He claims that this search consistently results in a plausible but ultimately wrong answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know ChatGPT and all the other LLMs are not good enough to write wiki entries,\u201d Wales stated. He emphasizes that the reliance on human verification and community oversight that Wikipedia has developed over decades.<\/p>\n
The question of bias and sources<\/p>\n
Musk and his allies frequently criticize Wikipedia for alleged \u201cwoke bias\u201d and for excluding conservative media as sources. Grokipedia\u2019s own entry on Wikipedia accuses the site of having a \u201csystemic ideological bias.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wales strongly defended Wikipedia\u2019s editorial policy. He said the organization\u2019s priority is sourcing neutrality. \u201cWe don\u2019t treat random crackpots the same as The New England Journal of Medicine, and that doesn\u2019t make us woke,\u201d Wales said. He also added that responding to criticism by \u201cdoubling down on being neutral and being really careful about sources\u201d is essential.<\/p>\n
The Wikimedia Foundation still acknowledges that AI poses challenges\u2014notably the decline in human visits and the increased scraping of Wikipedia data to train AI models. However, he considers Wikipedia\u2019s approach to be better and more reliable. \u201cThis human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,\u201d notes the Foundation.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Wales views the biggest threat not as a direct AI replacement. Instead, he sees it as the ability of LLMs to generate plausible fake websites, which could fool the general public.
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