"Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites on planet Earth and, in this reporter's opinion, one of humanity's greatest modern achievements of the digital age. It's the closest we've gotten to making all the world's information freely available to all, the result of armies of volunteers constructing an incredibly robust architecture for knowledge. Many have tried to build universal online encyclopedias to rival it, and none have come close. It is, as much as anything else on the internet, sui generis. And, annoyingly to certain acquisitive billionaires, it's not for sale."
"In June, Musk raised eyebrows by promising to " rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors," using his Grok AI. That's the same one with a nasty habit of heil-Hitlering. We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2025"
Wikipedia ranks among the world's ten most visited websites and represents a volunteer-built, freely available architecture for global knowledge. Numerous attempts to replicate its scope and reliability have failed, leaving Wikipedia effectively sui generis. xAI announced plans for Grokipedia, an open-source knowledge repository intended to surpass Wikipedia and permit unrestricted public use. The Grok AI family will be used to rewrite the corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors, with subsequent retraining to improve foundation-model training data. Prior Grok behavior and broader claims about saving news via micropayments have already provoked controversy.
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