# Grokipedia **Entity class:** AI-generated online encyclopedia (xAI) **Domain:** Reference Authority / Machine Epistemics **Concept Hub:** [[wiki/Lexicographic Succession|Lexicographic Succession]] **Aliases:** Grokipedia v0.1 ## Definition **Grokipedia is an online encyclopedia generated by xAI's [[wiki/Grok|Grok]] model, launched on October 27, 2025 with more than 800,000 articles and presented by [[wiki/Elon Musk|Elon Musk]] as a corrective to perceived bias in Wikipedia.** ## Evidence Ledger - **Established.** [[wiki/Taha Yasseri|Taha Yasseri]] and Saeedeh Mohammadi's comparison of matched Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles (arXiv:2510.26899, first posted October 30, 2025, revised through January 31, 2026) found Grokipedia entries longer with substantially fewer citations per word; the first version concluded that the machine encyclopedia favors "narrative expansion over citation-based verification," and later versions reported a rightward shift in cited news sources concentrated in history, religion, literature and art. - **Established.** Renée DiResta and Ronald Robertson (*Lawfare*, August 5, 2026) documented that Grokipedia stopped processing edits on April 24, 2026, left more than 13,000 user suggestions pending and retroactively reclassified earlier edit decisions after a March 14 system rewrite, while major AI systems continued to cite its pages. Nieman Lab reported the freeze on August 6, 2026. - **Strongly indicated.** English Wikipedia's editors deprecated Grokipedia as a source in February 2026 (reported on Wikipedia's own pages). ## Role in the Corpus The September 2026 update to [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]] cites Grokipedia's freeze as a reference layer that lost its editors and kept its reach, the reference-layer version of [[wiki/Freedom of Reach|freedom of reach]]. ## Relationships - **Concepts:** [[wiki/Generative Canon|Generative Canon]] · [[wiki/Lexicographic Succession|Lexicographic Succession]] · [[wiki/Freedom of Reach|Freedom of Reach]] · [[wiki/Reopened Choice Space|Reopened Choice Space]]. - **Entities:** [[wiki/Grok|Grok]] · [[wiki/Elon Musk|Elon Musk]] · [[wiki/Encyclopaedia Britannica|Encyclopaedia Britannica]] · [[wiki/Taha Yasseri|Taha Yasseri]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime|The New Dictionary of the Machine Regime]]. ## Sources / Provenance - Taha Yasseri and Saeedeh Mohammadi, ["How Similar Are Grokipedia and Wikipedia?"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26899) (arXiv, 2025–2026). - Renée DiResta and Ronald Robertson, ["Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn't Tell Anyone."](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-edits-in-april.-it-didn-t-tell-anyone) (*Lawfare*, August 5, 2026). - Laura Hazard Owen, ["Grokipedia ... seems to have stopped updating in April"](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/grokipedia-elon-musks-anti-woke-ai-wikipedia-seems-to-have-stopped-updating-in-april/) (*Nieman Lab*, August 6, 2026). - [Grokipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia) (Wikipedia; accessed September 22, 2026).