Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed Tuesday that his team at xAI is working on a non-biased alternative to Wikipedia.
“We are building Grokipedia @xAI,” Musk announced on X. “Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe.”
Internet project developer and philosopher Larry Sanger, along with internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, launched Wikipedia in 2001, initially with guidelines to maintain a “neutral point of view.”
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson recently had Sanger on his podcast, the Tucker Carlson Show, to discuss how those guidelines eventually became corrupted by an army of left-wing activists.
“Larry Sanger built Wikipedia as an unbiased repository of the world’s knowledge, and then stood helplessly by as activists and intel agencies turned it into the most comprehensive propaganda op in human history,” Carlson stated. “There’s nothing more corrupt.”
“There are PR firms that do nothing but edit articles on Wikipedia in order to be able to insert desired factoids according to how people pay them essentially,” Sanger told Carlson.
He said it’s called “paid editing” and is officially not allowed, but a lot of people do it anyway.
Sanger said the company is made up of 833 administrators, 16 bureaucrats, 49 check-users (able to identify IP addresses of accounts), and 15 members of an arbitration committee, which he said “is like the Supreme Court of Wikipedia,” and deals mostly with behavioral issues. Of 62 overlapping leadership accounts, he said, only nine are named.
“So 85 percent of the most powerful accounts on Wikipedia on the editorial side, are anonymous,” Sanger noted.
“Wait a second!” Carlson cried. “These are the people who are shaping Americans’ understanding of the world, of their own country, of themselves, of reality itself—and we don’t know who they are?!”
“That’s correct,” Sanger replied. “They can libel people with impunity, as they do you, and there’s no legal recourse because they’re anonymous and the Wikipedia Foundation enjoys Section 230 immunity, which means it can’t be sued in the United States.”
Sanger said Wikipedia openly maintains a blacklist that bans dozens of conservative sources.
“So if the only defenders of Tucker Carlson can be found in those other sources, then you won’t be defended in the article about you and they will call the article about you neutral,” he explained.
Fully approved sources on Wikipedia’s Perennial Sources List include, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, the Nation, MSNBC, Slate, Buzzfeed News, al Jazeera, Mother Jones, GLAAD, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Amnesty International.
Deprecated sources include Occupy Democrats, One America News Network, The Epoch Times, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Sun, The Grayzone, MintPress News, and Newsmax.
Blacklisted sources include the Daily Mail, Fox News, the Heritage Foundation, Breitbart News, Infowars, the Federalist, and Natural News.
Sanger told Carlson “it wasn’t always like this, but over the years, the left consolidated its power.”
“Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections,” Tech founder David Sacks commented on X. “Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem.”