Musk's Grokipedia leans on 'questionable' sources, study says


Musk and the US Republican Party have frequently accused Wikipedia of being biased against right-wing ideas. — AFP

WASHINGTON: Elon Musk's Grokipedia carries thousands of citations to "questionable" and "problematic" sources, US researchers said Friday, raising doubts about the reliability of the AI-powered encyclopedia as an information tool.

Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia last month to compete with Wikipedia – a crowdsourced information repository authored by humans that the billionaire and others on the American right have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.

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