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<p><strong>For 24 years, Wikipedia has relied on fallible humans to write about everything there is to know about anything. Grokipedia, created by Elon Musks xAI, is finally set to challenge that.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>Supporters of Grokipedia say its the best thing thats come out on the internet since well, Wikipedia. However, Musks critics argue his new encyclopedia is nowhere near as neutral as it claims and is pushing right-wing talking points.&nbsp;</p>
<p>But maybe theyre both right.&nbsp;</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="elon-musks-grokipedia-idea-was-born-just-a-month-ago">Elon Musks Grokipedia idea was born just a month ago</h2>
<p>It was only at the <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-grokipedia-beta-2-weeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">end of September</a> when Elon Musk announced xAI was building Grokipedia, claiming it would be a massive improvement over Wikipedia, and address falsehoods and half-truths on the internet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Its v0.1, <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-s-grokipedia-goes-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">released on Monday</a> as an early beta, and saw huge praise from his supporters on X, with many praising what they see as Grokipedias clinical approach to politically charged topics, such as Charlie Kirk, George Floyd, and even Bitcoin.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Grokipedia has only 885,279 articles at launch, and most searches yield empty results. It is also yet to benefit from extensive user edits to fix errors or hallucinations though that functionality is built in.&nbsp;</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="wikipedia-vs-grokipedia-on-crypto">Wikipedia vs Grokipedia on crypto</h2>
<p>Wikipedias dismissive treatment of Bitcoin is particularly illuminating when compared with Musks version, which many attribute to the influence of <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-hating-wikipedia-editor-david-gerard-claims-another-victim" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">professional crypto skeptic</a> David Gerard, who was a senior administrator and editor at Wikipedia from 2004 until this year.</p>
<p>Ironically, the part of his Wikipedia entry that indicates he stepped down this year says “citation needed,” but if true, it may be related to recent publicity around his <a href="https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">controversial approach</a> to editing.<br><br><strong><em>Read more: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/cryptos-critics-can-fud-ever-be-healthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Crypto critic David Gerard Can FUD ever be useful?</a></em></strong></p>
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<p>Like most entries on cryptocurrency on Wikipedia, the Bitcoin entry has been under various forms of editing protection for more than a decade and has been designated a contentious topic under active community sanctions.</p>
<p>This effectively limits editing of the article and only allows a small subset of powerful editors and administrators to change the content. This helps explain why the crypto content takes a fairly negative approach to the topic and overlooks many key details and developments.</p>
<p>Cryptocurrency publications are not considered reliable sources by Wikipedia, either, meaning the content is often sourced from mainstream journalists who have a limited understanding of the topic.</p>
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<p><br> In Wikipedias entry on Bitcoin, the introduction highlights Bitcoins use by criminals, which is again emphasized in the payments section, which claims Bitcoin is rarely used in regular transactions but is popular for criminal activities.</p>
<p>It quotes crypto-hating economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kenneth Rogoff to support this argument, and again quotes them describing cryptocurrencies as an economic bubble with zero intrinsic value. The only scholar who disagrees that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.instead calls it a collective delusion.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Grokipedia <a href="https://grokipedia.com/page/Bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">does</a> a far better job with a much more detailed <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-grok-ai-rewrite-the-entire-corpus-human-knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">11,000-word</a> write-up compared to Wikipedias 4,500-word entry, and arguably presents a more balanced view.</p>
<p>While Grokipedia acknowledges Bitcoins early associations with illicit uses, it also suggests this aspect has been overblown, and that Bitcoins transparency makes it traceable and unsuited for criminal use anyway.</p>
<p>Bitcoin’s role in illicit finance remains disproportionately scrutinized relative to fiat currencies, where cash enables untraceable transactions comprising an estimated 2-5% of global GDP in laundering annually, per United Nations figures, versus cryptos sub-1% onchain illicit share, the entry states.</p>
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  <em>Guillaume Verdon, the founder of effective accelerationism, says Grokipedias article on the subject is the best one hes read on the topic.</em> (<em><a href="https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1982989602899247405" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Guillaume Verdon</a></em>)
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<p>Grok doesnt even mention the word Ponzi, whereas Wikipedia trots it out three times.</p>
<p>Ethereum also <a href="https://grokipedia.com/page/Ethereum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">gets</a> more love from Grokipedia, which devotes a whopping 14,000 words to the blockchain, diving deeper into its economics, supply mechanics and technical architecture, along with an exhaustive list of major Ethereum upgrades and EIPs. Wikipedia’s Ethereum entry, on the other hand, is a mere 4,300 words.<br><br> The Wikipedia entry also grudgingly notes the move to proof-of-stake cut electricity use by 99% and then spends three times as long arguing it doesnt matter as someone might use those three-year-old miners for something else:</p>
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 <p>The impact this has on global energy consumption and climate change may be limited since the computers previously used for mining ether may be used to mine other cryptocurrencies that are energy-intensive.</p>
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<p>Incredibly, Grokipedia is already better than Wikipedia for Ethereum, says Evan Van Ness, a former member of the Ethereum Foundation and founder of Ethereum News Weekly.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Its not as pretty, and its definitely not polished (not even rendering the EFs logo on the second line), but its far more substantive and factual.</p>
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  <em>(<a href="https://x.com/evan_van_ness/status/1983246551809175925" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Evan Van Ness</a>)</em>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="is-grokipedia-just-biased-to-the-right-then">Is Grokipedia just biased to the right, then?</h2>
<p>Wikipedia fans have come out in defense of the online encyclopedia and attacked Grokipedia for being biased in the other direction.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-wikipedia-competitor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">article</a> on Monday, WIRED claimed Grokipedia is pushing far-right talking points while The Guardian said it aligned with rightwing views.</p>
<p>They took issue with Grokipedia entries that included claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, that social media led to a rise in transgender people, and that the Jan. 6 United States Capitol riots came as a result of voting irregularities that led to Joe Bidens victory in 2020. (The <a href="https://grokipedia.com/page/Donald_Trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">entry</a> at time of publication did not state that the voting irregularities occurred, just that Trump claimed they did.)</p>
<p>The outlets also note that Grokipedia slams the likes of CNN and The New York Times for systemic left-leaning bias and had even labeled Wired as devolving into far-left wing propaganda.&nbsp;</p>
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  <em>An early version of the Grokipedia entry on Wikipedia calls it a manipulated conservative-leaning online encyclopedia. (<a href="https://x.com/stillgray/status/1983095150797828149" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ian Miles Cheong</a>)</em>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-solution-read-both">The solution: Read both</h2>
<p>At this early stage, Grokipedia appears to do a better job of striking an even-handed tone across controversial topics that encompass different perspectives than Wikipedia, which often pushes a single narrative that its editors have deemed correct.<br><br> For example, Wikipedia has a highly opinionated article claiming there is no evidence at all for the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis, which it derides as a conspiracy theory weaponized by politicians to foster anti-Chinese sentiment. Thats despite the CIA and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The New York Times</a> considering the hypothesis credible and the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/27-06-2025-who-scientific-advisory-group-issues-report-on-origins-of-covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stating in June:</a> As things stand, all hypotheses must remain on the table, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak.<br><br> As with all media, readers are likely to be best informed by reading publications with different perspectives, with the truth often lying somewhere in between.<br><br> In my first ten tests, Grokipedia beat out Wikipedia significantly in terms of neutrality, <a href="https://larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokipedia-a-first-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">says</a> Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia but left the project the following year and has since openly criticized it for its bias.</p>
<p>What I want to warn you, however, is not to be reflexive fanboys and fangirls of Grokipedia.</p>
<p>Its a very solid launch. But we dont know how this is going to play out, he adds.</p>
<p>Hopefully, Elon Musk can iron out all the details by the time the full version is released, and well before he puts a copy of it on Mars.&nbsp;</p>
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