Just nine months after Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his anti-woke alternative to Wikipedia, the AI-generated encyclopedia appears to be dead or at least paused for now. Lawfare reported this week that Grokipedia appears to have stopped reviewing suggested edits and updating its articles since April 24. As far as its researchers could tell, no entry on the site has changed in more than three months. Although Grokipedia’s articles are written and maintained by xAI’s Grok, the encyclopedia allows human users to suggest corrections. The AI is supposed to review each submission, which then moves through a visible queue from “in review” to “approved” or “rejected” and then “implemented.” Previously, that process could take only minutes. But Lawfare researchers noticed that some suggestions had been sitting “in review” for more than six weeks. To test the system, they submitted a straightforward factual update noting that SpaceX had launched its initial public offering in June. Other users had already suggested the same change, but Grokipedia’s SpaceX page still describes the IPO as an upcoming event rather than something that has already happened.
The researchers then checked some of the site’s most popular pages and found the same pattern. Grokipedia’s ChatGPT entry, for example, approved 12 edits on April 24. Every suggestion submitted after is still “in review.” Lawfare ultimately analyzed 34,519 pages and found that none of them have been updated in the past three months.
