<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Elon Musk&rsquo;s company xAI has launched a new website called Grokipedia, which looks a lot like Wikipedia. The homepage is very simple: just a big search bar and a clean layout. Each page has headings, small sections, and links to sources, similar to Wikipedia. But users can&rsquo;t really edit the pages right now. Some pages have an edit button, but it only shows past changes.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Grokipedia also says its pages are &ldquo;fact-checked by Grok,&rdquo; the chatbot, but people are not sure how true those checks are, Verge reported.</span></p>
<h2><span style=”color: #ba372a;”><strong>Grokipedia Uses Wikipedia Content Despite &ldquo;Better Version&rdquo; Promise</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Elon Musk had said that Grokipedia would be a much better version of Wikipedia, but many pages look copied from it, as reported by The Verge.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For example, the MacBook Air page says the content was &ldquo;adapted from Wikipedia&rdquo; under the same license.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The same note appears on other pages like PlayStation 5 and Lincoln Mark VIII, and their content looks almost the same, line by line.</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>A spokesperson from Wikipedia&rsquo;s team told </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Verge</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> that &ldquo;Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.&rdquo; This shows that Musk&rsquo;s platform still depends on the very site it wanted to replace.</span></p>
<h2><span style=”color: #ba372a;”><strong>Grokipedia&rsquo;s Climate Change Page Sparks Early Debate</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Some pages on Grokipedia are already creating controversy, especially the one on climate change. Wikipedia clearly says that almost all scientists agree that climate change is caused by humans.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>But Grokipedia&rsquo;s page adds that some critics think the agreement is exaggerated and that the media and groups like Greenpeace make the issue sound more serious than it is.</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Right now, Grokipedia has about 885,000 articles, while Wikipedia has nearly 7 million English pages.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Grokipedia is still in its early version (v0.1), so it might change later. But for now, it feels more like a copy of Wikipedia than a new and improved version.</span></p>

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