Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

What do you do if you're the richest man on Earth and don't like Wikipedia? Start your own imitation encyclopedia, call it Grokipedia, lift a bunch of pages from the site, and let AI fill in the rest. Obviously, that's a recipe for success.

Musk announced the launch of Grokipedia "version 0.1" on X Monday evening, qualifying any potential failures on the site as likely to be improved when version 1.0 eventually rolls around, "but even at 0.1 it's better than Wikipedia imo," the X-man opined. 

Unfortunately for Musk, it's hard to be better than Wikipedia when many of its 885,279 articles (around 12 percent of the English language Wikipedia's 7.08 million) are derived directly from Wikipedia pages. 

As pointed out by several commenters on Musk's X post, the phrase "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under ...