Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia: AI-Powered Alternative to Wikipedia Sparks Controversy

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

On Monday, Elon Musk's xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be "a massive improvement over Wikipedia," and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed "to do more work to purge out the propaganda." When Grokipedia eventually dropped on Monday, WIRED was initially unable to access the website and received an automated message that it was blocked. When we finally got access to it, WIRED found that the online encyclopedia contained lengthy entries generated by AI. While many of the pages WIRED saw on launch day appeared fairly similar to Wikipedia in terms of tone and content, a number of notable Grokipedia entries denounced the mainstream media, highlighted conservative viewpoints, and sometimes perpetuated historical inaccuracies. The Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans in the US includes a section outlining numerous "ideological justifications" made for slavery, including the "Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good." The end of the entry focuses on criticisms of The 1619 Project, which it says incorrectly framed "slavery as the central engine of the nation's political, economic, and cultural development." Entries for more recent historical events put conservative perspectives at the center. When WIRED searched for "gay marriage" in Grokipedia, no entry popped up, but one of the on-screen suggestions was for "gay pornography" instead. This entry in Grokipedia falsely states that the proliferation of porn exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. "This marked the onset of what would become a devastating crisis disproportionately affecting gay male communities, where behaviors idealized in pornography -- such as unprotected receptive anal intercourse and multiple anonymous partners -- aligned directly with primary transmission routes, leading to rapid seroconversion rates," the Grokipedia entry claims. xAI did not immediately return a request for comment. The Grokipedia entry for "transgender" includes two mentions of "transgenderism," a term commonly used to denigrate trans people. The entry also refers to trans women as "biological males" who have "generated significant conflicts, primarily centered on risks to women's safety, privacy, and sex-based protections established to mitigate male-perpetrated violence." The opening section highlights social media as a potential "contagion" that is increasing the number of trans people.

Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia

Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia, with entries edited by xAI, his artificial intelligence company. The new project, Grokipedia, would "purge out the propaganda" flooding Wikipedia, Mr. Musk claimed in a post on his social media site, X. Grokipedia, which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon, tallied more than 800,000 A.I.-generated encyclopedia entries, compared with Wikipedia's nearly eight million human-written ones. Visitors to the website -- grokipedia.com -- were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics. An entry on Mr. Musk said his public persona "blends innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur" and featured details of his diet, noting his consumption of "occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily." Grokipedia also has entries on OpenAI, a competitor of xAI, and political figures like President Trump and the New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The new site adds to Mr. Musk's online media ecosystem, which coheres with his personal political views. On X, Mr. Musk has reinstated right-wing creators and allowed them to reach enormous audiences, and he has used X as a bully pulpit to drive government funding cuts. He has also tweaked xAI's chatbot, Grok, to lean further to the right. "The impulse to control knowledge is as old as knowledge itself," said Ryan McGrady, a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies encyclopedias and social media platforms. "Controlling what gets written is a way to gain or keep power." A representative for xAI did not respond to questions about Grokipedia or the outage. Wikipedia, which debuted almost 25 years ago, has faced increasing criticism from conservatives in recent months. Mr. Musk and his political allies have argued that the online encyclopedia is too "woke" and excludes conservative media outlets from its approved citations. Mr. Musk fiercely criticized the site in January, after the entry on him was edited to note that he had thrown his right arm stiffly into the air in front of him -- a gesture many onlookers quickly compared to a Nazi salute -- during a celebratory speech honoring Mr. Trump's inauguration. Mr. Musk has denied any meaning behind his gesture, something also included in the entry. "Since legacy media propaganda is considered a 'valid' source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!" he posted, calling for its donors to stop contributing to the site. Mr. Musk announced his intention to build a competing site this month. "Wikipedia has achieved a dominant position. I hope Grokipedia challenges it and is able to fix that," said David Sacks, the A.I. czar of the Trump administration and an investor in several of Mr. Musk's companies, in an episode of his podcast this month. "But the easier path might just be for Wikipedia to stop blackballing and censoring conservative publications, rather than having to rebuild that whole thing from scratch." Jimmy Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, said in an interview that he did not think A.I. could replace the site's accuracy. He is leading an internal working group that is focused on promoting neutral points of view and developing guidelines to encourage academic research into potential biases on Wikipedia, he added. "I try to tease out what is the negative something in there that I could try to improve," Mr. Wales said of the critiques. "It's digging in and doing the work. That's the only thing I know how to do." Wikipedia already faces challenges as its entries are used to train A.I. systems, said representatives for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the online encyclopedia. Visits to its website by humans have fallen 8 percent this year, while visits from automatic scrapers that A.I. companies use to harvest data have increased. A.I. summaries generated by search engines and chatbots are also stopping users from visiting Wikipedia. "People will take information they get from these tools at face value, and that information may or may not be correct," said Selena Deckelmann, the chief technology officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The value Wikipedia has provided for over a decade is that it lets people dig into the sources."

Elon Musk's Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here's what the difference is

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again Monday evening. As of this writing, it is up. In terms of style, it looks like Wikipedia with its optional dark mode turned on. Based on a very brief review, it contains articles on most topics one would most easily expect in an encyclopedia, professing to have just under 900,000 in total. The website Wikicount says there are about 8 million English Wikipedia articles. There are gaps in Grokipedia, however. For instance, at the moment it does not currently appear to have a dedicated article about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk announced that his AI company, xAI, was building an online encyclopedia late last month, saying it would be a "massive improvement over Wikipedia." The idea for Grokipedia was born during an appearance by Musk on the All-In Podcast. Host and fellow high net worth individual David Sacks asked Musk point blank to create it, noting that Wikipedia was "hyper-partisan" and full of "activists." Here are some comparisons between Wikipedia articles and Grokipedia articles. These are copied verbatim from the intros of articles with the footnotes and links removed for ease of reading: Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political commentator, activist and live streamer. He identifies as a Christian nationalist and part of the incel subculture. His views have been described as racist, white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, and Islamophobic. Furthermore, he has been described as a neo-Nazi and a Holocaust denier. His supporters are known as Groypers. Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American political commentator, live streamer, and activist who hosts the nightly internet program America First and organizes the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). A self-professed traditional Catholic, Fuentes advocates for policies centered on national sovereignty, including a moratorium on immigration, withdrawal from foreign entanglements, and preservation of America's historic European-descended majority. His rise began as a teenager supporting Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, after which he withdrew from Boston University amid threats following his attendance at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Title: "Great Replacement conspiracy theory" The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory coined by French author Renaud Camus. Camus' theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoplesâ€"especially from Muslim-majority countriesâ€"through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans. Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims of a conspiracy of "replacist" elites as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview. Title: "Great Replacement theory" The Great Replacement is a theory originated by French writer Renaud Camus in his 2011 essay Le Grand Remplacement, which contends that the historic populations of European nations are undergoing demographic substitution through sustained high levels of immigration from Africa and the Middle East, compounded by sub-replacement fertility rates among native Europeans (typically below 1.5 children per woman in most EU countries) and comparatively higher fertility among immigrant groups (often exceeding 2.0). Camus describes this process as an orchestrated "genocide by substitution," driven by elite policies favoring multiculturalism over national continuity, resulting in the erosion of indigenous cultural dominance without violent conflict. Empirical underpinnings include United Nations projections indicating that net migration will account for nearly all population stability or growth in Europe amid native decline, with foreign-born residents comprising nearly 10% of the EU population by 2024 and contributing disproportionately to birthsâ€"one-third or more in nations like Austria and Germany Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish: [ˈɡreËta ˈtʉËnbÃ|rj]; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist best known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues. She gained global attention in 2018, at age 15, after starting a solo school strike outside the Swedish parliament, which inspired the worldwide Fridays for Future movement. She has since broadened her focus to include human rights and global justice, voicing support for Ukraine, Palestine, Armenia, and Western Sahara. In 2025, Thunberg twice joined a humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip. Thunberg has been credited with sparking the "Greta effect", influencing environmental awareness and youth engagement worldwide. She has received numerous honors, including inclusion in Time's 100 Most Influential People and being named Person of the Year in 2019. Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish activist recognized for launching a solo school strike for climate action on 20 August 2018 outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, an action that catalyzed the international Fridays for Future movement involving millions of students protesting government inaction on climate change. Thunberg, diagnosed at age 11 or 12 with Asperger syndromeâ€"a form of autism spectrum disorderâ€"along with obsessive-compulsive disorder and selective mutism, has described these conditions as providing her with a focused "superpower" for advocacy. Her high-profile speeches at venues including the United Nations General Assembly and the World Economic Forum in Davos amplified calls for immediate emissions reductions and policy shifts, earning her Time magazine's Person of the Year designation in 2019 as the youngest recipient. While credited with elevating youth engagement on environmental issues, Thunberg's promotion of urgent, existential climate threats has drawn scrutiny for diverging from nuanced empirical assessments of climate risks and adaptation capacities, as well as for extending her activism into broader political arenas such as anti-capitalist and geopolitical protests. Overall, Grokipedia gives off the impression of a site where topics and people that Elon Musk likes or supports are presented without framings that cast any doubt on their validity, and those he dislikes are presented with criticism front-and-center. As others have pointed out, some articles are strikingly similar to Wikipedia's, and contain notes at the bottom saying they were adapted from Wikipedia under a ShareAlike 4.0 license, which would seem to indicate that those particular Grokipedia articles are also available to share freely. However, the url for Grokipedia is at the .com top-level domain, not the .org domain like Wikipedia. Grokipedia also mostly (or perhaps entirely) lacks photos and illustrations. It's understandable that biographical articles don't have portraits, but articles like "Tesseract" would benefit from clarifying illustrations and even animations, like on Wikipedia. Some Grokipedia articles are quite long and detailedâ€"long past the point of general interest. For instance, the article for Gizmodo, while seemingly accurate after a brief scan, seems like it would benefit from a human editor. Overall, the project seems very much like what it purports to be: a version of Wikipedia with articles written by Grok, a large language model that favors Elon Musk's views. Gizmodo reached out to xAI about all of this, asking for comment. That email received an immediate, three-word reply: "Legacy Media Lies." Â

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival

Elon Musk speak to reporters on the South Lawn at the White House in March. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Elon Musk on Monday launched an early version of Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia written by AI that the billionaire is touting as a less biased alternative to the venerable online resource Wikipedia. When it first went live Monday afternoon, the site resembled Wikipedia in style and format, with articles on topics such as ChatGPT, Diane Keaton and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it appeared significantly smaller, more opaque in its workings -- and more right-leaning in how it framed some articles. Grokipedia's entry on gender, for instance, begins with the sentence: "Gender refers to the binary classification of humans as male or female based on biological sex...." Wikipedia's starts with: "Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender." The project is Musk's latest bid to harness Grok, the ChatGPT-like AI system developed by his company xAI, to offer right-leaning, freewheeling alternatives to popular mainstream tech tools. At launch, Grokipedia's homepage boasted that the site has about 885,000 articles, whereas the English-language Wikipedia has more than 8 million. The site went live on Monday without fanfare or explanation. A minimalist homepage bore the title "Grokipedia v0.1" and a search bar where users could type in queries. Musk and X did not immediately respond to The Washington Post's request for comment. Grokipedia's articles appear to be derived the same large language model that underlies the Grok chatbot on X, formerly Twitter, which Musk purchased and renamed in 2022. That could mean it has access, at least in theory, to the latest X posts from the site's hundreds of millions of users, which it can use to inform articles and keep them up-to-date. It could also make Grokipedia prone to the sort of high-profile gaffes that have dogged the Grok chatbot at times. Earlier this year, the bot began spouting a conspiracy theory about "white genocide" in South Africa in response to unrelated questions. In other instances, it has spewed antisemitic slurs, generated images that virtually "undressed" female X users, and confidently misdiagnosed an injury. (In each case, Musk or X blamed coding errors and eventually remedied the issue.) In 2017, Musk tweeted, "I love Wikipedia. Just gets better over time." But the billionaire entrepreneur soured on the site in recent years, taking issue at times with how its "Elon Musk" article portrayed him and accusing it of liberal bias as Musk's own politics grew more conservative. Earlier this year he tweeted: "Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored!" The owner of X and xAI has joined a chorus of right-leaning critics, including an ousted Wikipedia co-founder, who say the online encyclopedia -- which has a policy of remaining neutral on ideological debates -- too often holds up a liberal lens to hot-button issues such as climate science, vaccines and the Israel-Gaza conflict. Musk announced his intention to build Grokipedia on Sept. 29, in response to an X post from President Donald Trump's AI czar, Silicon Valley investor David Sacks, who called Wikipedia "hopelessly biased." Ahead of Grokipedia's launch, some observers said they expected it to draw heavily on Wikipedia for its content. "Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia's freely licensed knowledge," said Stephen Harrison, a journalist and author who has covered Wikipedia extensively, on Friday. "The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify." In an interview with The Post last week, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said he would be curious to see Grokipedia when it launched but didn't have high expectations. AI language models "aren't good enough to write encyclopedia articles," Wales said. "There will be a lot of errors."

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia as an alternative to 'woke' Wikipedia

Grokipedia is a creation of Musk's AI chatbot, Grok. Human volunteers write and edit articles for Wikipedia. Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Monday launched an online encyclopedia, named Grokipedia, that he said was fueled by artificial intelligence and designed to be closer to his conservative political views than the leading alternative, Wikipedia. Musk announced last month that he was working on a Wikipedia rival after a suggestion from David Sacks, a friend and fellow tech investor who is the Trump administration's AI and crypto czar. Musk has described the project in political terms, attacking Wikipedia as "woke" and criticizing it for citing news outlets such as The New York Times and NPR as sources in many of its articles. Musk said on X that an AI-generated encyclopedia would be "super important for civilization" and a necessary step toward "understanding the Universe." Grokipedia's operation differs from Wikipedia in at least one major respect: no clear human authors. While volunteers write and edit Wikipedia, often anonymously, Grokipedia says that its articles were "fact-checked" by Grok, the AI chatbot from Musk's startup xAI. Visitors to Grokipedia cannot make edits, though they can suggest edits via a pop-up form for reporting wrong information. At least initially, some Grokipedia entries say they are based on Wikipedia itself. "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License," a disclaimer says on the bottom of some, but not all, entries, including the one for the Nobel Prize in physics. There are some content differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia. Grokipedia's entry for President Donald Trump, for example, includes no mention of Trump accepting a luxury megajet from Qatar or his promotion of a Trump-themed cryptocurrency token, or meme coin, while Wikipedia's entry for Trump includes a section dedicated to conflicts of interests -- including both the jet and the meme coin. The Grokipedia entry for Musk includes no mention of his hand gesture at a rally in January that was viewed by many historians and politicians as a Nazi salute, while the Wikipedia entry for him has several paragraphs on the subject. The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, said Monday that it was in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works. "Wikipedia's knowledge is -- and always will be -- human," the foundation said in a statement. "Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding -- one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist." The statement continued: "Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn't interfere with our work or mission." The Grokipedia project pits the world's wealthiest person, Musk, against one of the internet's most-visited websites, Wikipedia. Wikipedia ranks No. 9 worldwide in visits, according to data firm Similarweb, dwarfing older rivals such as Encyclopedia Britannica. Wikipedia also represents an earlier, democratic vision for the open web, before giant tech platforms came to dominate and segment the internet. Founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia has remained a nonprofit with free content fueled mainly by enthusiasts. It's also ad-free. Sanger, though, has for years been a critic of how Wikipedia operates, in particular its use of anonymous editors and what he views as a left-wing slant. Last month, he repeated his criticisms in an interview with online conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson, which Sacks then shared on X. Sacks and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Wikipedia says it has 7.1 million articles in English, while Grokipedia says it has 885,000 articles initially available. Grokipedia is labeled, though, as version 0.1, indicating many more updates to come.

After initial crash, Musk's Grokipedia is back online featuring massive AI encyclopedia

Elon Musk's Grokipedia has launched. This AI-powered encyclopedia aims to be a truthful alternative to Wikipedia. It uses AI for content management and fact-checking. Users cannot edit directly but can submit corrections. Early content reflects Musk's viewpoints. Grokipedia is expected to evolve with more AI-generated content and oversight. Its impact on online information will become clearer. Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's much-anticipated AI-powered online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, officially launched on October 27, 2025, but not without a rocky start. The platform briefly went offline hours after going live, but soon returned to availability, now hosting over 885,000 articles. Grokipedia is powered by Grok, xAI's AI chatbot trained on real-time data, and represents Musk's vision of a "truthful and independent alternative" to Wikipedia, which he has long criticized for bias and propagandist content. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, however, has refuted these claims as factually incorrect. Musk has described Grokipedia as a "massive improvement over Wikipedia" and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe". Unlike Wikipedia's crowd-sourced editorial model that depends on volunteer editors, Grokipedia uses AI to manage, fact-check, and curate content. Users cannot directly edit articles but can submit corrections through a reporting system, aimed at avoiding typical edit conflicts. Grokkipedia's content is largely adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, but it does not use Wikipedia's standard in-line source linking. This has raised some questions about transparency and sourcing. Social media users have already noted instances where the entries reflect Musk's personal worldview more explicitly than Wikipedia articles. Some users found the early content on Grokipedia reflecting Musk's conservative viewpoints, with some entries omitting facts present in Wikipedia or presenting alternative framings. While others are appreciating its fairness and neutrality in results. The platform's simple interface displays a minimalist homepage labeled "Grokipedia v0.1" alongside a search bar to explore its extensive knowledge base. As a beta version, it is expected to evolve with more original AI-generated content and increased editorial oversight. This release follows Musk's statements weeks prior about delaying the launch to conduct additional work to "purge out the propaganda" and ensure Grokipedia's content offers a balanced perspective. The platform's reception remains mixed, with supporters praising its innovative approach and critics warning of potential ideological skew and AI hallucination risks. Despite initial technical hiccups and public debate on bias and accuracy, Grokipedia marks an important development in AI-powered knowledge dissemination, reflecting growing interest in leveraging artificial intelligence to create and curate vast repositories of information at scale. As Grokipedia grows beyond this initial beta stage, its impact on the encyclopedia ecosystem and public trust in online information will become clearer.

xAI launches Grokipedia v0.1 as open-source AI alternative to Wikipedia

Elon Musk has officially launched Grokipedia, an artificial intelligence-powered encyclopedia developed by his company xAI. Released as Version 0.1, the platform uses the Grok AI model to automatically generate, verify, and update a large repository of factual content. Positioned as a direct competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia takes a fully AI-managed approach to information creation and editing. Instead of community editors, xAI's Grok model generates and maintains entries for consistency and speed. Musk announced the rollout on X, stating that Grokipedia is "better than Wikipedia even at 0.1," and added that Version 1.0 will be ten times better. The initial release includes about 885,279 articles, generated using xAI's large-scale computing resources. Grokipedia features a minimalist homepage titled "Grokipedia v0.1", with a clean layout and a simple search bar for topic exploration. It provides concise, factual summaries supported by cited sources and continuous AI-based updates. Unlike Wikipedia's open editing model, users cannot directly modify articles. Instead, they can submit requests for corrections or updates through Grok, xAI's conversational assistant, which reviews and processes them. The platform is fully open source, allowing anyone to use or adapt its framework freely. Content, Licensing, and Reception Most early Grokipedia content is adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, though the lack of inline citations has drawn transparency concerns. Public reception has been mixed -- some users praise the platform's neutral tone and concise entries, while others note Musk-influenced framings, missing details, and potential AI bias or hallucinations. Musk said the launch was delayed to "purge out the propaganda" and ensure balanced coverage. Despite minor technical issues, many view Grokipedia as an early experiment in AI-driven knowledge creation. Built under xAI's goal of advancing truthful and accessible knowledge, Grokipedia represents a new direction for AI-based information platforms. As it evolves, its credibility, transparency, and accuracy will determine its long-term impact on how online knowledge is curated and consumed. Grokipedia is now live at Grokipedia.com. Users can sign in using their X accounts to browse or request updates. Currently, there are no official Android or iOS apps released by xAI.

Elon Musk's AI-powered Wikipedia rival goes live: Here's how to use Grokipedia

Grokipedia doesn't respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine. Elon Musk's much-talked-about project, Grokipedia, has officially gone live, marking the launch of what many are calling his alternative to Wikipedia. The AI-powered encyclopedia became available in the early hours of Tuesday, though it briefly crashed before coming back online. Unlike regular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini or even Musk's own Grok, Grokipedia doesn't respond to conversation-style prompts. Instead, it works more like a search engine. Users simply need to type in the name of a topic they want to learn about, not a full question. For example, if you're looking for information about Paris, you should just type "Paris" instead of saying "Tell me something about Paris." Grokipedia will not understand or respond to chat-style prompts. Also read: Amazon to lay off 30,000 employees across divisions amid cost-cutting push: Report Using Grokipedia is straightforward. To use the new AI encyclopedia, users can go to Grokipedia.com and start searching for topics of interest. Musk earlier claimed that Grokipedia would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia. However, Grokipedia seems to borrow heavily from Wikipedia itself. Some articles reportedly include a note at the bottom stating: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License." Also read: Google Pixel 9a price drops by Rs 10,000 on Flipkart: How to grab this deal "Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist," Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, tells The Verge. "Wikipedia's nonprofit independence -- with no ads and no data-selling -- also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades." Whether Grokipedia will evolve into a true Wikipedia alternative or remain a heavily AI-powered mirror of it remains to be seen.