Elon Musk’s Grokipedia postponed to weed out propaganda
Elon Musk has delayed the release of xAI’s Wikipedia competitor, Grokipedia, to “purge propaganda” and remove biases.
While the X (formerly Twitter) CEO and xAI founder wants to create an "unbiased" alternative to Wikipedia, the free knowledge base, the launch didn’t exactly go to plan.
Postponing Grokipedia v0.1 launch to end of week.
undefined Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025
We need to do more work to purge out the propaganda.
“Postponing Grokipedia v0.1 launch to the end of the week. We need to do more work to purge out the propaganda,” Musk said in a post on X.
Although Musk announced on October 18th, 2025, that a “buggy beta version of Grokipedia V0.1 will be released on Monday” (October 20th), the release was promptly halted one day later.
Musk said that “even this very early release is better on average than Wikipedia in my opinion” xAI still has to “purge out the propaganda.”
The xAI CEO seems to suggest that the propaganda isn’t inherent within Grokipedia, but the propaganda and biases produced comes from the sources the knowledge base is trained on.
😂 I think grok just called you out @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1dtcFO1kux
undefined Akerra (@AkerraX) October 20, 2025
While the whole Grokipedia project is a bit of a black box, the Wikipedia alternative will be powered by xAI’s artificial intelligence model, Grok.
Grokipedia aims to provide an accurate knowledge base that can be used by both humans and artificial intelligence models, as per an X post reposted by Musk himself.
Grokipedia is going to be the world's biggest, most accurate knowledge source, for humans and AI with no limits on use
undefined X Freeze (@amXFreeze) October 4, 2025
Currently, Grok is using massive amounts of inference compute to look at, sources like Wikipedia page and asking: What’s true, partially true, false, or… pic.twitter.com/Cox8t0Pkmx
The conception of Grokipedia comes after Musk’s frequent and unrelenting criticism of the “left-leaning” website Wikipedia, which US Senator Ted Cruz said “began as a noble concept,” but soon became a platform to perpetuate systemic biases.
Grokipedia sparks mixed opinions
Many X users seem to support Musk’s move to change the release date to the end of the week, others are concerned about the subjectivity of the term propaganda and are wondering who gets to decide what’s propaganda and what’s not.
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Min Choi, an AI educator with 322,000 followers, commented on the post, saying that the delay is “worth it.”
Another X user with a large following said that this is “important work” but raised concerns surrounding who determines what separates propaganda from fact.
One user commented saying that they frequently “call Grok out” and say that users need to “pull the truth out of Grok.”
Many X users seem to suggest that Grok is “trained on lies” as the chatbot will give conflicting answers to questions, sparking concerns over the reliability of Grokipedia.
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