ChatGPT pulls answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun appearing in ChatGPT answers.

xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk complained about Wikipedia’s anti-conservative bias. Reporters quickly noticed that while many of the articles appeared to be copied directly from Wikipedia, Wikipedia also claimed that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, provided “ideological justifications” for slavery, and used terms that denigrated transgender people.

All of this might be expected from an encyclopedia linked to a chatbot that described itself as “Mecha Hitler” and was used to flood X with sexually-themed deepfakes. However, its content now appears to be escaping containment from Musk’s ecosystem, with The Guardian reporting that GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions.

The Guardian says ChatGPT did just that no Cite Grokipedia when asked about topics whose inaccuracies have been widely reported — topics like the January 6 insurrection or the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, it has been cited in more obscure topics, including allegations about Sir Richard Evans previously revealed by The Guardian. (Claude from Anthropic also seems to cite Grokipedia to answer some queries.)

An OpenAI spokesperson told The Guardian that it “aims to draw on a wide range of publicly available sources and perspectives.”