grokipedia.com is now live.
It's surprisingly pretty good, and better than Wikipedia in some ways, presumably because they don't use Wikipedia's circular definition of authoritative sources where only the most mainstream of mainstream publications can be referenced in an article. Additionally, it doesn't have the retarded rule around not permitting references to primary sources. The variety of sources it uses is diverse, and I think that ultimately gives you a better idea of what's going on "on the ground" as it were. For example, in the Starship article's criticism section, one of the references is some Medium article by a nobody criticizing it. The article is mostly bullshit, but it's bullshit that the people criticizing starship genuinely believe, and when a more mature piece of criticism is recommended in its place, it will be replaced. But until then, I think it's perfectly serviceable. Wikipedia powermods would be absolutely furious over a Medium article being included as a reference, but I think it's mostly harmless in absence of other criticism.
Rather than directly editing, Grokipedia has you highlight text, explain why it's wrong, and then Grok will take it into account before changing it. This seems like a fine system, but they don't have it implemented in practice yet. I've made suggestions for corrections/improvements and the system has thanked me for it, but it looks like none of the changes have propagated yet on any article.
It is lacking the images and sounds as a result of being llm-generated, but I assume in later versions Grok will go multi-modal and start including apropos multi-media. It's worth noting that a lot of the articles take directly from their Wikipedia counterparts, courtesy of Wikipedia's permissive licensing.
There's only 900,000 articles right now, but the tech-base they have means that can scale up scarily quick, and Elon Musk always like to tout his 'orders of magnitude' improvement, so I expect 100,000,000 articles by the end of next year, dwarfing Wikipedia. It's hard to express how much this could change things. Just imagine a wikipedia that can cite actual research papers because Xai bought the permissions, that can have articles about even irrelevant people in a great deal of detail: articles about Chris-chan, random e-celebs that were always deemed too low status to 'deserve' articles, and articles about topics more dear to our heart on this board. Musk says he wants Grokipedia to have several times greater breadth and depth than Wikipedia, and he has the resources to pull it off. It Based on what I'm seeing, Grokipedia is actually a severe threat to Wikipedia's dominance