{"id":36949,"date":"2025-10-29T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/wikipedia-takes-an-apparent-jab-at-elon-musk-and-grokipedia-in-latest-fundraising-pop-up-created-by-people-not-machines\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:42:02","slug":"wikipedia-takes-an-apparent-jab-at-elon-musk-and-grokipedia-in-latest-fundraising-pop-up-created-by-people-not-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/wikipedia-takes-an-apparent-jab-at-elon-musk-and-grokipedia-in-latest-fundraising-pop-up-created-by-people-not-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia takes an apparent jab at Elon Musk and Grokipedia in latest fundraising pop-up: &#8216;Created by people, not machines&#8217;`"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69024d90c007ca8c2737da71?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><figcaption>Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk has officially launched Grokipedia, an online repository meant to rival Wikipedia.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia appeared to criticize Musk and xAI in a note to users on its website.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;It&#039;s owned by a nonprofit, not a giant technology company or a billionaire,&quot; the note said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk, who has repeatedly lambasted Wikipedia, has built his own AI-powered online encyclopedia. But Wikipedia isn&#039;t going down without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>In a note asking its US users to donate money, Wikipedia said it is a human-run website uninfluenced by ideology. It also said it wasn&#039;t owned by a billionaire, an apparent jab at Musk, who has an estimated net worth of $500 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;After nearly 25 years, Wikipedia is still the internet we were promised\u2014created by people, not by machines. It&#039;s not perfect, but it&#039;s not here to push a point of view,&quot; Wikipedia said. &quot;It&#039;s owned by a non-profit, not a giant technology company or a billionaire.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia has built its vast database from human volunteers who write articles for its site. Musk&#039;s Grokipedia, developed under xAI, relies on the Grok large language model to generate and edit articles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s unclear when this specific note first appeared on Wikipedia&#039;s website, but the platform is displaying it the same week Musk launched Grokipedia. Wikipedia often runs fundraising campaigns on its website.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69024ccc0be9845f2dc551b0?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Wikipedia note to users visible on October 29, 2025.\"\/><figcaption>Wikipedia displayed a note for US-based users.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Version 0.1 of Grokipedia officially launched on Monday, touting access to 885,279 articles.<\/p>\n<p>Some users have noticed errors on the site. A Grokipedia post viewed on Tuesday by Business Insider reporters said former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took on a significant role in DOGE after Musk&#039;s departure. Ramaswamy left DOGE about four months before Musk&#039;s exit in May.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#039;s AI chatbot, Grok, has had its own problems responding to user inquiries. In July, Grok shared several antisemitic posts, including at least two that praised Adolf Hitler. xAI later apologized for Grok&#039;s &quot;horrific behavior,&quot; saying it was caused by a code update.<\/p>\n<p>Musk teased Grokipedia in an X post last month, writing that the AI-powered encyclopedia &quot;will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe,&quot; Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Wikimedia, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia Anadolu\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Elon Musk has officially launched Grokipedia, an online repository meant to rival Wikipedia. Wikipedia appeared to criticize Musk and xAI in a note to users on its website. &quot;It&#039;s owned by a nonprofit, not a giant technology company or a billionaire,&quot; the note said. Elon Musk, who has repeatedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}