Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated answer to Wikipedia, is about as deranged as you’d expect — and you don’t have to dig very deep to see why.
We could, of course, start by examining how Grok, the chatbot responsible for writing the site built by xAI, tackles talking about its creator, something that hasn’t always been a flattering exercise for Musk in the past. But instead we turn to the official entry on the Tesla Cybertruck, the indefensibly bad excuse for a pickup truck that more than anything has come to totally symbolize Musk’s waning vision and all the bonkers political baggage he comes with.
The human-written Wikipedia entry on the Cybertruck — which, like on other Grokipedia pages, Grok heavily cribbed from — begins by describing the controversial EV as a “battery-electric full-size pickup truck manufactured by Tesla,” ending the first sentence there.
But the Grokipedia article — “fact-checked by Grok,” we’re assured by a message on the top — frontloads its take with technical details that are clearly supposed to make the truck sound as awesome as possible.
“The Tesla Cybertruck is a battery-electric full-size pickup truck manufactured by Tesla, Inc., characterized by its polygonal, low-polygon aesthetic and an exterior structural exoskeleton composed of 3-millimeter-thick ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless steel,” it enthuses in language that sounds more like an advertisement than an encyclopedia entry, “which provides corrosion resistance comparable to 316L marine-grade steel and is claimed to be seven times stronger and more scratch-resistant than conventional automotive exterior steels.”
Things get really good when we get to the parts where Grokipedia tackles the public reception to the Cybertruck, like in one section called “Media Narratives, Regulatory Scrutiny, and Bias Claims.” The section accuses “left-leaning outlets” like CBS News of unfairly emphasizing how the truck’s stainless steel exteriors quickly began to rust after being delivered to their owners, while not as heavily covering recalls by legacy automakers like Ford.
It also brings up claims of “systemic media bias” against Tesla — describing its critics as “linked to institutional left-wing leanings skeptical of Musk’s non-conformist approach” — by citing discussion in “owner forums.” This barrage of anti-Cybertruck hate, the entry laments, comes “even as empirical delivery data shows sustained demand post-issues.”
That last bit is one of the article’s most blatant issues — should we call them lies, or hallucinations? — because Grok contradicts itself by admitting in another part of the page that sales fell because of “demand softening.” The injection of an AI model, Grok, into the editorial process serves as a get-out-jail-free card whenever the ersatz Wikipedia gets caught…
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