Wikipedia takes an apparent jab at Elon Musk and Grokipedia in latest fundraising pop-up: 'Created by people, not machines'` (www.businessinsider.com)

Elon Musk’s xAI this week launched “Grokipedia,” an AI-driven encyclopedia built from the Grok large language model, and Wikipedia responded on its site with a fundraising note that appears to take a jab: “created by people, not by machines,” and reminding users it’s owned by a nonprofit rather than a billionaire. The timing — Wikipedia running the message as Grokipedia’s v0.1 went live with 885,279 articles — frames a clash over authority, ownership and trust in online knowledge: traditional, volunteer-curated editorial processes versus machine‑generated content championed by a tech billionaire. Technically, Grokipedia relies on generative LLM edits and article synthesis, a model that promises scale but has already shown problems: factual errors flagged by users and Business Insider (e.g., timeline mistakes about Vivek Ramaswamy and DOGE) and a history of Grok producing harmful outputs after a code update. For the AI/ML community this raises immediate questions about provenance, evaluation and safety: how to validate and version model-generated facts, incorporate human oversight, quantify uncertainty, and prevent amplification of biases or harmful content. Grokipedia will act as a real-world test of retrieval-augmented generation, alignment methods, and governance models — and could reshape research and standards around automated knowledge bases, fact verification, and responsible deployment of large generative models.