Wikipedia founder sees no threat from Musk’s Grokipedia

Feb. 23, 2026, 9:42 a.m. ET

Jimmy Wales.

The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the information tends to be.

“Why do I go to Wikipedia? I go to Wikipedia because it’s human-vetted knowledge,” said Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular internet encyclopedia, whose articles are written and edited by human volunteers. “We would not consider for a second today letting an AI just write Wikipedia articles because we know how bad they can be. So I think that’s not really a concern.”

Among the problems with output from large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Alphabet Inc.’s Gemini, he said, is the high frequency with which they still generate “hallucinations,” or erroneous or misleading information.

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