Late last month, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia with 855,279 articles, no human editors, and no way for users to request improvements beyond a suggestion box addressed to its eponymous chatbot author. The tech entrepreneur is eager, he has said, to “purge out the propaganda” that he argues afflicts Wikipedia, the venerable user-generated reference source. But some Grokipedia articles are near replicas of Wikipedia entries. Other articles in the new source seem conspicuously sanitized: The article about the U.S. government’s now-defunct foreign-aid agency fails to mention Musk, who boasted about his role in “feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”

The articles on Grokipedia are produced by Grok, Musk’s AI model, and they are roughly what you’d expect from replaci

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