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Wikipedia is, at its heart, a massive group project. It’s edited by almost a million people each year. Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated Wikipedia alternative, is, by contrast, only edited by a chatbot, Grok. The site, launched in 2025, does allow humans to suggest changes to its content. But according to a new analysis from the Tow Center, something has shifted: suggestions are increasingly being submitted from Grok to itself. Now the chatbot is primarily suggesting and approving edits to Grokipedia, without humans involved. Grok-supplied edits spiked in December and have overtaken human submitters, making up more than three-quarters of the suggestions.

At the same time that Grokipedia is editing itself more, people are increasingly relying on the site for information. A simple ChatGPT question can result in information from Grokipedia , and the site often appears in Google search results. But there are risks to relying on it.…