By Abdul Masih –
Elon Musk to the rescue again.
First he took over and exposed massive propaganda at Twitter, which he renamed X, heralding in free speech.
Now, Elon unleashed Grokipedia, a competitor to the famous left-leaning Wikipedia. Grokipedia could represent a massive reformation in the age of AI since models rely on Wikipedia to spew “facts” to users.
Since Artificial Intelligence gives the sensation of truth through self-search, dishing up left-leaning ideas as if they were unbiased facts is dangerous (see Pilgrim Dispatch’s argument with AI about kids being showered with dollar bills while dancing at a Drag Queen festival).
As of its launch Monday, Grokipedia hosted 900,00 articles, generated by AI to give “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” Musk says.
While Grokipedia is 100% AI generated and fact-checked, Wikipedia relies on human editors to write entries and human editors to edit them. In a self-report, editors identified 4-to-1 leftist per conservative. Topics such as “Climate change,” “Trump” and “Gender” get overpowered by leftists, who leave their imprint.
While Fox News, Daily Wire or Substack are often ruled unreliable by Wikipedia; BBC, NPR, WaPo and NYT are taken to be reliable. This means that conservative news sources are not trusted while liberal ones, even with egregious untruths, are taken at face value.
According to former co-founder Larry Sanger, Wikipedia started with the noble idea of neutrality and fairness of ideas but completely went off the rails in 2016 with culture wars.
“Certain points of view have been systematically silenced,” Sanger observes. “The left is relentless when it comes to stating their point of view. Nobody should trust Wikipedia. The word for it is propaganda.”
Some argue that the preponderance of grants from left-leaning foundations make Wikipedia open to progressive ideas and closed to conservative ideas. Examples:
- $4.5M Equity Fund to groups like Borealis Philanthropy (racial equity in journalism).
- OpIndia dossier claims WMF funds “anti-India” entities via Tides/Soros links giving rise to anti-Hindu/India bias.
- $62.9M endowment Tides linked to Soros/Rockefeller that gives rise to pro-Hamas bias.
Users flooded Grokipedia Monday to the point that it crashed. It is back.
Among those trying out Grokipedia is Arthur MacWaters who checked out entries on the Corona Virus. Wikipedia attributed the idea it came from the Wuhan lab as being from “conspiracy theories.” Grokipedia says more neutrally, “Experts are split, here are the sources for the house report on the lab leak and the scientific sentiment studies.”
“I will literally never use Wikipedia,” MacWaters said on X.
The deluge of left-leaning media criticism was immediate: NYT, CNN, Wired, CNBC, Guardian, WaPo, Axios, Yahoo and others unleashed a barrage of accusations. “Grokipedia is a propaganda machine dressed up as an encyclopedia, vomiting far-right talking points and historical falsehoods with the smug confidence of a chatbot that’s never been told no,” Wired wrote.
Yeah, they’re in full panic mode.
Grokipedia appears to derive its name from Elon’s AI Grok.
Pilgrim Dispatch did its own check, researching for a coming article on Nicole C. Mullen. The Wikipedia articles was poorly written skeleton. Grokipedia’s entry was superior over ChatGPT.
