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‘Grokipedia will make massive errors’: Wikipedia founder questions use of AI for reliable info

October 30, 2025 10:12 am

Even as Wikipedia reckons with losing traffic to AI-generated summaries, its contents have been widely scraped to train the very LLMs that threaten to replace it.

Grokipedia is developed by xAI, the same company that introduced us to the Grok AI chatbot on X.

Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grokipedia, a free AI-powered rival to Wikipedia

October 29, 2025 10:03 am

Unlike Wikipedia, which allows anyone to edit articles, Grokipedia doesn’t let users make direct changes. Instead, they can only suggest edits or flag incorrect information.

Wikipedia gets billions of visitors per month.

Wikipedia loses traffic as AI chatbots replace search visits

October 21, 2025 8:45 am

Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that owns Wikipedia, says that AI summaries and social media does not make the online encyclopedia "any less important".

despite some scepticism towards Wikipedia, its information tends to be far more factual than broad datasets like the Common Crawl, which scrape diverse web pages from the internet. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Wikipedia might give AI models access to site for ‘knowledge base’

October 03, 2025 10:25 am

Wikipedia's knowledge base could significantly improve data accessibility and quality for AI models and LLMs.

Wikipedia operator loses court challenge to regulations under UK Online Safety Act

August 11, 2025 4:18 pm

The Online Safety Act was criticised earlier this month by social media site X, which said significant changes were needed to the law.

The Wikimedia Foundation ruled out replacing the team of volunteers behind Wikipedia with AI.

Wikipedia adopts new AI strategy to ease workloads of humans editors, volunteer staff

May 02, 2025 1:56 pm

The move comes as other platforms like Duolingo and Shopify are increasingly betting on AI to do the work that human workers used to handle.

Wikipedia vs ANI: SC sets aside HC order to remove 'defamatory' content

'Very broadly worded order': SC strikes down Delhi HC directive to Wikipedia to remove ANI page content

April 18, 2025 9:02 am

A bench of Justices A S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said that on first principles, an injunction should be granted in such a manner that it is capable of being implemented.

Court can't order content takedown just because it doesn't like it: SC reserves verdict in ANI v Wikimedia

April 10, 2025 1:48 am

The Wikipedia page carried details of the High Court hearing on a defamation complaint filed by ANI against Wikipedia, including the comments of the judge

Delhi HC refuses to stay order asking Wikipedia to remove defamatory content against ANI

April 09, 2025 5:52 am

The division bench was considering an appeal by Wikipedia through Wikimedia Foundation against the single-judge’s April 2 order granting interim injunction in favour of ANI

Wikipedia operator appeals Indian court's order to remove content

April 08, 2025 9:10 am

The Wikimedia Foundation, operator of Wikipedia, has challenged a Delhi High Court order directing the removal of allegedly defamatory statements about Indian news agency ANI.