Elon Musk’s new encyclopedia, Gracypedia, cited the neo-Nazi website Stormfro 42 times, and other websites that experts consider unreliable or full of hateful coe, a study has found.
According to NBC, the study, conducted by two researchers from Cornell University, says that in addition to citing Stormfro, the encyclopedia also cited other similar websites dozens of times, including 34 citations to the conspiracy theory website Infowars and 107 citations to the white nationalist website VDare.
Wikipedia does not allow coributors to cite such sources
Although these references make up a small perceage of the total sources on Wikipedia, the poi is that an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia does not consider these sources to be authoritative and usually does not allow coributors to use them as sources, even when the topic itself is about racist ideologies or conspiracy theories.
Harold Treidman, one of the authors of this article and a master’s stude in computer science at Cornell University, said: “Public and community-based rules that try to maiain Wikipedia as a comprehensive, reliable and human-produced resource are not applied in Gurupedia.”
Tridman was previously a senior privacy engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the same organization that manages Wikipedia, and still works part-time with one of its affiliates. Of course, he himself meioned this issue in his article, but emphasized that he conducted this research independely.
In total, the researchers found that GuruPedia coained 12,522 references to online sources whose academic research was judged to be very unreliable. It is also found that this encyclopedia cites these domains 3 times more than Wikipedia. How to edit articles is also ceralized in Grokipedia, and any editing of articles must be done by a team belonging to xAI itself. This is while Wikipedia allows all ierested people to participate in editing articles.
