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It's got some obvious bias right now, but some articles are already better than Wikipedia - for example on the origin of Covid. I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.


> I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.

  Situation: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia

  "The crowdsourced encyclopedia is untrustworthy? How ridiculous! We need to develop an AI-powered black-box that replaces everyone's Wikipedia use-cases!"

  Soon: there is one mediocre online crowdsourced encyclopedia, and Elon Musk's website developed in response to crowdsourced encyclopedias
It's the Full Self Driving of online research. Who wouldn't trust it?


Maybe it will be a shot in arm for Wikipedia to make some needed reforms.


Probably not. Grokipedia's failure will validate Wikipedia's ban on spurious sources to enforce

We already have people reacting to completely incorrect AI-generated pages about their own lives: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/28/Grokipedi...




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