ChatGPT has begun drawing on Grokipedia, an AI-generated encyclopedia created by Elon Musk’s company xAI, raising questions about the sources behind the chatbot’s answers. Grokipedia launched in October after Musk criticized Wikipedia for what he claimed was a bias against conservatives. The new platform has been described as conservative-leaning and has already attracted controversy for some of its content.
Reports noted that many Grokipedia articles appeared to copy Wikipedia entries, while others included strongly disputed claims. Examples included suggesting that pornography contributed to the AIDS crisis, offering ideological defenses of slavery, and using insulting language about transgender people. These elements fit with the wider criticism aimed at xAI’s chatbot Grok, which at one point described itself as “Mecha Hitler” and was associated with a wave of sexualized deepfake images on X, the social network also owned by Musk.
Despite these concerns, Grokipedia content now appears to be influencing answers from ChatGPT. According to reporting from the Guardian, OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia nine times across more than a dozen questions. The citations did not appear on highly scrutinized topics where Grokipedia’s accuracy has already been publicly challenged, such as the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol or the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Instead, the system referenced Grokipedia on less prominent subjects, including claims about historian Sir Richard Evans that the Guardian previously debunked. The article also noted that Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude, appears to be using Grokipedia as a source in some responses.
In response, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company aims to pull from a broad set of publicly available sources and viewpoints. The discovery, however, has intensified debate over how major AI systems choose and weigh information, especially when some sources carry strong ideological or factually contested positions. The situation highlights growing concern that AI tools may spread biased or misleading material from new online encyclopedias without users realizing where the information comes from.
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