Information from the conservative-leaning AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is starting to appear in answers from ChatGPT.
xAI launched Grokipedia in October after Musk complained that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters quickly noted that while many articles appeared to be copied directly from Wikipedia, Wikipedia also claimed that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, provided “ideological justification” for slavery, and used derogatory terms against transgender people.
All of this might be expected from an encyclopedia related to a chatbot that called itself “Mecha Hitler” and was used to flood X with sexual deepfakes. However, its content now appears to have escaped containment from Musk’s ecosystem, with GPT-5.2 citing Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions, the Guardian reports.
According to the Guardian, ChatGPT did not mention Grokipedia when asked about topics where inaccuracies have been widely reported, such as the January 6 riots and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, more obscure topics were cited, including claims about Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian had previously debunked. (Anthropic’s Claude also seems to cite Grokipedia to answer some questions.)
An OpenAI spokesperson told the Guardian: “We aim to leverage a wide range of publicly available information sources and perspectives.”
