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Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk had been complaining that Wikipedia was biased against conservatives. Reporters soon noted that while many articles seemed to be copied directly from Wikipedia<\/a>, Grokipedia also claimed<\/a> that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offered \u201cideological justifications\u201d for slavery, and used denigrating terms for transgender people.<\/p>\n All that might be expected for an encyclopedia associated with a chatbot that described itself as \u201cMecha Hitler\u201d<\/a> and was used to flood X with sexualized deepfakes<\/a>. However, its content now seems to be making its way outside the Musk ecosystem, with the Guardian reporting<\/a> that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions.<\/p>\n The Guardian says ChatGPT did not<\/em> cite Grokipedia when asked about topics where its inaccuracy has been widely reported\u2014 topics like the January 6 insurrection or the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. Instead, it was cited on our obscure topics, including claims about Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian had previously debunked.<\/a> (Anthropic\u2019s Claude also appears to be citing Grokipedia to answer some queries.)<\/p>\n An OpenAI spokesperson told the Guardian that it \u201caims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n