Elon Musk launched his own version of Wikipedia earlier this week — promising users “truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. The somewhat unoriginally named Grokipedia has been touted as a potential rival for the well-known online encyclopedia and currently houses more than 885,000 articles. The AI-driven platform has also faced vehement criticism from several quarters, with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales voicing concern about the use of large language models to create a trusted source of information.

“The LLMs he is using to write it are going to make massive errors. We know ChatGPT and all the other LLMs are not good enough to write Wiki entries. I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales warned during the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summ

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