Wikipedia Founder Sees No Threat From Musk’s Grokipedia

The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the information tends to be.

“Why do I go to Wikipedia? I go to Wikipedia because it’s human-vetted knowledge,” said Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular internet encyclopedia, whose articles are written and edited by human volunteers. “We would not consider for a second today letting an AI just write Wikipedia articles because we know how bad they can be. So I think that’s not really a concern.”

Jimmy Wales

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