The wildest statements made by Elon Musk’s ‘Grokipedia’
Elon Musk, the founder of xAI. (Getty)
Elon Musk, the founder of xAI. (Getty)
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has launched an AI-generated online encyclopedia called ‘Grokipedia’ as a challenger to Wikipedia, and the right-wing bias is glaring.
Musk, owner of X – formerly known as Twitter – and boss of SpaceX and Tesla, announced the new encyclopaedia on Tuesday (28 October) and shared a link to it to his 228 million followers.
He wrote “Version 1.0 will be 10X better” than the crowd-sourced market leader Wikipedia “but even at 0.1 it’s better than Wikipedia imo”.
In subsequent posts, Musk wrote that Grokipedia will “exceed Wikipedia by several orders of magnitude in breadth, depth and accuracy” and the goal of it is “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”, adding: “We will never be perfect, but we shall nonetheless strive towards that goal.”
In the replies to Musk’s initial post, one user asked about the differences between Grokpedia and Wikipedia, with xAI’s chatbot Grok – which has courted controversy for producing antisemitic posts, pushing the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory unprompted and describing gender-affirming care as “child abuse” – writing in response: “Grokpedia leverages xAI’s Grok to synthesize knowledge from diverse sources, prioritizing maximum truth-seeking over consensus-driven editing. Wikipedia, by contrast, depends on volunteer editors whose biases—often left-leaning—can distort entries on controversial topics. Grokpedia minimizes human subjectivity, focusing on verifiable facts and logical reasoning for a more reliable reference. Version 0.1 already outperforms Wikipedia in neutrality, with rapid improvements ahead.”
Just 24 hours on from launch Grokipedia has an estimated 900,000 articles, much smaller than Wikipedia’s current count of seven million but larger than what Wikipedia had until at least four years after launch in 2006.
Once a big fan of Wikipedia – Musk wrote a social media post to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2021 – in recent years the billionaire has taken issue with the platform, claiming it was “losing its objectivity” in 2022 and later branding it “woke” and “Dickipedia” for supposed left-wing bias.
Notably, Musk criticised the online encyclopedia’s inclusion of a description of his alleged “Nazi salute” at Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, the criticism he faced for it and his denial that the gesture symbolised such an ideology, writing: “Since legacy media propaganda is considered a “valid” source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda!”
In response, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales replied that the description is a factual outlining of what happened.
“Is there anything you consider inaccurate in that description? It’s true you did the gesture (twice) and that people did compare it to a Nazi salute (many people) and it’s true that you denied it had any meaning,” Wales wrote.
“That isn’t MSM propaganda. That’s fact. Every element of it.”
It’s clear Musk wants Grokipedia to be nothing like Wikipedia, in the sense of supposed left-wing propaganda, and sees AI as the means by which factual information on the internet will be shared in a neutral format.
In the days since it launched, here are some of the wildest or strangest statements or sources we found on a variety of different topics.
Trans identities are ‘socially contagious’
Grokipedia’s entry on the trans community is, unsurprisingly, a complete and utter trainwreck. Not only is it littered with misinformation, but its citations are a who’s who of anti-trans naysayers and infamously ignorant reports or studies.
This is no better represented in its section on so-called ‘social contagion’. The website’s AI-model spouts baseless and widely debunked claims that trans people only exist as a social fad as though it were fact.
It claims that trans people suddenly popped into existence around the 2010s and that it “coincides with expanded access to social media and peer networks,” where “clusters of identification have been observed.”
Its justification for this is, unsurprisingly, Lisa Littman’s discredited study on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). The article cites Littman’s study – which was so unreliable, Littman herself was forced to issue a statement calling it nonsense – at least three separate times, not counting other sources that use Littman’s research as justification for further bigoted beliefs.
It does highlight the criticism behind the ROGD study, namely Littman’s eyebrow-raising decision not to speak to a single trans person, but quickly brushes those criticisms off, adding that it was “supported by referral data patterns.”
Where does it get these data patterns from? Well, the much-criticised Cass Report of course!
Interestingly, because AI-models have about as much critical thinking capacity as closed captions on a YouTube video, it treats this theory as though it were fact.
Of course, the truth about trans social contagion is… it’s biased bulls**t.
Cisgender ‘pathologises normality’
In an article on the term “cisgender” – a word that Musk himself previously described as a “heterosexual slur” – Grokipedia states that some critics “contend that applying “cisgender” to the majority retroactively pathologizes normality and serves ideological aims over first-principles analysis of sex as a bimodal distribution determined by gamete production”.
The explanatory source cited for this is not any scientific or peer-reviewed paper but a website called New Discourses founded by author and far-right activist James Lindsay, who is credited with popularising the anti-LGBTQ+ groomer slur and conspiracy theory.
Musk has ‘at least 12 children’ – isn’t it 14?
In Musk’s own article on Grokipedia it describes the tech billionaire as having fathered “at least 12 publicly confirmed living children with four women as of 2025”, but the sources that cite this claim – People Magazine and Page Six – actually state he has 14 known children.
Cross-checking the children listed on Musk’s article to other accounts of the number in his brood, the Grokipedia article does not reference Romulus, born to author and political influencer Ashley St. Clair, or Arcadia, born to Shivon Zilis.
It is unclear why the AI, which Musk is portraying as an accurate source of online information, would misrepresent the his number of kids when the facts are so widely available.
Sandy Hook victims lawsuits described as ‘setbacks’ for Alex Jones
Controversial pundit Alex Jones, has of course received his own entry in the Grokipedia, rich as it is in heavily-processed right-wing groupthink.
The founder of spurious dietary supplement storefront Infowars, which occasionally does radio shows now and then, is heralded as a prominent radio host who fearlessly challenges “institutional narratives” by… relentlessly harassing the parents of school shooting victims.
Jones was famously ordered in 2022 to pay nearly $1 billion in defamation damages for his decade-long harassment campaign against the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which he falsely claimed was fake.
Grokipedia describes this as a mere “setback” for Jones, adding: “Jones’ advocacy for nutritional supplements and resistance to regulatory overreach via his product lines has sustained a loyal audience, underscoring his role in popularising dissident perspectives amid critiques of mainstream media’s alignment with governmental and corporate interests.”
That entire statement has a single source. Amazon.com. Yes, the storefront Amazon, where Jones sells his pseudo-scientific dietary supplements.
