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(The bots are also leaning heavily on Wikipedia, fact-checkers and the media -- those very institutions Musk, Zuck, and co. think will be supplanted by Notes).
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An AI bot is now the top contributor to Community Notes on X
But synthetic contributors aren’t replacing humans – yet
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November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
(The bots are also leaning heavily on Wikipedia, fact-checkers and the media -- those very institutions Musk, Zuck, and co. think will be supplanted by Notes).
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This newsletter pulls a few things together, including my Atlantic essay on working the referees, and @mantzarlis.com’s fantastic new analysis on what exactly is in Grokipedia.
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This newsletter pulls a few things together, including my Atlantic essay on working the referees, and @mantzarlis.com’s fantastic new analysis on what exactly is in Grokipedia.
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So here's what we have: An AI-powered encyclopedia that heavily leans on a volunteer effort that Musk has repeatedly attacked, which selectively edits a subset of topics to recast based with an undisclosed set of instructions. For those pages, citations to conspiracy sites and hate groups go up.
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
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November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So here's what we have: An AI-powered encyclopedia that heavily leans on a volunteer effort that Musk has repeatedly attacked, which selectively edits a subset of topics to recast based with an undisclosed set of instructions. For those pages, citations to conspiracy sites and hate groups go up.
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After a week of reviewing the site-wide data and many entries in detail, I think Grokipedia has made significant editorial decisions around sourcing and topic treatment that lend credence to @matteowong.bsky.social's argument in The Atlantic that it is “the next step in Musk’s propaganda machine.”
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
After a week of reviewing the site-wide data and many entries in detail, I think Grokipedia has made significant editorial decisions around sourcing and topic treatment that lend credence to @matteowong.bsky.social's argument in The Atlantic that it is “the next step in Musk’s propaganda machine.”