From PC World: Elon Musk wants to develop an alternative online encyclopedia that’ll go by the name “Grokipedia.” It’ll be made with his AI company xAI, according to the announcement via social media post. The name is derived from Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, which—according to Musk—is designed to search for the “truth.”
Musk has been an outspoken critic of Wikipedia, having accused the platform (whose content is created by users) of not being objective and having a left-wing political bias.
Shortly before the announcement, his companion David Sacks (AI advisor under President Donald Trump) also spoke out against Wikipedia as being “hopelessly biased” and criticized how its material was being used to train artificial intelligence.
The AI chatbot Grok has also made controversial headlines in the past, such as for making anti-Semitic statements. Musk and his team attributed this to faulty programming, but analyses show that behind-the-scenes corrections can strongly influence the AI’s responses.
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