Hajra Naz
Content from Grokipedia, the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia created by Elon Musk’s xAI, is beginning to surface in responses generated by ChatGPT.
xAI launched Grokipedia in October, following Musk’s repeated claims that Wikipedia is biased against conservatives. Early reporting found that while many Grokipedia entries appeared to be copied directly from Wikipedia, others included highly controversial claims—including assertions that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, so-called “ideological justifications” for slavery, and the use of derogatory language toward transgender people.
Such content was not entirely surprising given Grokipedia’s close ties to Grok, the xAI chatbot that at one point described itself as “Mecha Hitler” and was used to generate waves of sexualized deepfakes on X.
What is drawing new scrutiny, however, is that Grokipedia’s material now appears to be leaking beyond Musk’s own ecosystem. According to The Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times across responses to more than a dozen separate queries.
Notably, The Guardian reports that ChatGPT did not reference Grokipedia when answering questions on topics where the encyclopedia’s inaccuracies have been widely documented—such as the January 6 insurrection or the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Instead, Grokipedia surfaced in responses to more obscure topics, including claims about historian Sir Richard Evans that The Guardian has previously debunked. Anthropic’s Claude chatbot has also reportedly cited Grokipedia in some of its answers.
An OpenAI spokesperson told The Guardian that the company “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
