Information from the AI-generated conservative encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is starting to appear in ChatGPT responses.
xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk complained about Wikipedia’s bias against conservatives. Journalists were quick to notice that although many articles appeared to be copied directly from WikipediaGrokipedia also claimed that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offered “ideological justifications” for slavery, and used denigrating terms toward transgender people.
Everything you could expect from an encyclopedia combined with a chatbot that describes himself as “Mecha Hitler” and was used to flood X with sexualized deepfakes. However, its content now seems to escape the containment of the Musk ecosystem, with the Guardian reports that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to over a dozen different questions.
The Guardian says ChatGPT did it not quote Grokipedia when asked about topics on which its inaccuracy has been widely reported – topics like the January 6 insurrection or the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, he was quoted on more obscure topics, including claims about Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian had already debunked. (Anthropic’s Claude also appears to cite Grokipedia to answer some questions.)
An OpenAI spokesperson told the Guardian that it “aims to draw on a wide range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
