Elon Musk has announced that his AI company Xai, will launch the early beta for Wikipedia competitors within two weeks, describing the service in response to “lies” and “half reality.”
Responding to a post about the upcoming AI-powered “Grokipedia,” Musk said by X on Sunday that “version 0.1 early beta” will be released within two weeks.
Musk first announced Xai was building Grokipedia on September 30th, Says In X that it will “be a massive improvement in Wikipedia,” adding that: “frankly, this is a necessary step towards the purpose of Xai to understand the universe.”
The details are currently widespread; However, Musk said Grokipedia consisted of an “open source of knowledge storage.”
This will appear That the idea for Grokipedia lives a brainstorm during a summit hosted at the All-in Podcast in September. In his appearance, Musk explained to the panel that Grok had scanned a wide range of resources, such as Wikipedia posts, documents, PDFs to prove if the information was true, “partly true,” incorrect or missing details.
He said Grok rewrite that information to convey what is considered the whole truth. In response, co-host David Sacks suggested that Musk should launch some kind of “Grokipedia” and offer it as a service, where Musk said “talk to the team” about it.
Elon Musk has beef with Wikipedia
The Tesla co-founder had a long stousy with Wikipedia, Platform criticism On some occasions, which are said to have packed up false information, have editorial skills that have slipped to the left and censor some information.
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In October 2023, Musk still went to say that he would pay the $ 1 billion platform if he changed his name to “Dikipedia,” aimed at a so -called ideological bias amidst the efforts of gathering the Wikipedia Foundation at the time.
Recently, he referred to that joke last week when commenting on a post from venture capitalist Chamath Plaikitiya, claiming that “Wikipedia is a huge psyop.”
Controversy over Wikipedia
Given the nature of the nature of the wikipedia information, it has a long list of controversies in recent years, with many of them really documented and listed On the platform.
A recent incident that brought a debate around the platform to the spotlight again was an interview Tucker Carlson had Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger was with September 30.
Sanger, who stopped being involved in the platform in 2002, featured resources approved and clogged on the platform, as he continued that “there is a serious academic encyclopedia of Christianity that is not allowed in Wikipedia,” among other things.
“There is a whole army of administrators – these are the way they are constantly blocking people that they have ideological disagreements,” he said.
According to Musk, Xai would not just stop there, with plans to jump into playing with the works as well. In another X Retweet on Sunday, Musk said the “Xai Game Studio will release a great AI-Generated game before the end of next year.”
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