Elon Musk’s Glocipedia platform contains thousands of citations to “questionable” and “questionable” sources, raising questions about the trustworthiness of the artificial intelligence-powered encyclopedia, researchers said on Friday (14 November 2025) in the US.
Musk’s company, xAI, launched Grokipedia in October to compete with Wikipedia, the human-created, crowd-sourced information repository that billionaires and the American right-wing have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.
“It is clear that Glocipedia significantly removes barriers to the use of information sources,” Cornell University researchers Harold Triedman and Alexios Manzarlis wrote in a report obtained by AFP news agency.
“This increases the overall prevalence of questionable sources and potentially problematic sources.”
The study, which analyzed hundreds of thousands of Grokipedia articles, notes that this trend is especially pronounced on controversial political or politics-related topics.
The section on the “Clinton Death Conspiracy Theory” (a widely debunked theory linking several deaths to former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary) cites InfoWars, a far-right website known for spreading disinformation.
Other articles cited right-wing media in the United States and India, state media in China and Iran, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim websites, and portals accused of promoting pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, the report said.
Musk, the world’s richest man who has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s campaign, claimed that Grokipedia’s goal is “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Musk announced on Thursday that he plans to rename Grokipedia to Encyclopedia Galactica once it is “sufficiently complete,” but acknowledged that “we still have a long way to go.”
gs (afp, dpa)
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