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Musk’s Anti-Woke Wikipedia Accused of Ripping Off the Real Thing

Musk’s Anti-Woke Wikipedia Accused of Ripping Off the Real Thing

Elon Musk’s “Grokipedia” appears to be lifting from the very site that it’s trying to replace.

Musk’s AI-fueled online encyclopedia appears to have ripped several entries directly from Wikipedia, The Verge reported.

The page on the gaming console PlayStation 5 is a line-for-line copy of the Wikipedia version, with minor additions, mainly in the “Reception” section, the outlet reported.

It even has a message at the bottom reading, “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

Other pages, such as those for the Lincoln Mark VIII and the MacBook Air, bear the same note at the bottom, and the content is again nearly identical.

This is why I said Wikipedia should be called Wokipedia (or Dickipedia 😂) https://t.co/gnSq22Mqat

The Tesla billionaire has slammed Wikipedia, calling it “Wokipedia,” and claimed X’s artificial intelligence, xAI, will “purge out the propaganda” in its over 800,000 pages. He sees Grokipedia as the anti-woke answer to the platform.

While the resemblance between the two sites is clear, Musk’s knockoff adds a few eyebrow-raising edits of its own.

Musk’s own page lacks any mention of the hand gesture he made at President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which many likened to a Nazi salute.

And a WIRED report noted that Grokipedia’s page on “transgender” includes two mentions of “transgenderism,” a phrase regarded as a pejorative against trans people.