Greekpedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times

Elon Musk’s new encyclopedia, Gracypedia, cited the neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, and other websites that experts consider unreliable or full of hateful content, a study has found.

According to NBC, the study, conducted by two researchers from Cornell University, says that in addition to citing Stormfront, 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 contributors to cite such sources

Although these references make up a small percentage of the total sources on Wikipedia, the point is that an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia does not consider these sources to be authoritative and usually does not allow contributors 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 student in computer science at Cornell University, said: “Public and community-based rules that try to maintain 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 mentioned this issue in his article, but emphasized that he conducted this research independently.

In total, the researchers found that GuruPedia contained 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 centralized in Grokipedia, and any editing of articles must be done by a team belonging to xAI itself. This is while Wikipedia allows all interested people to participate in editing articles.