Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI czar and co-host of the conference, stopped Musk mid-answer. “Well, Elon, by the way, could you just publish that?” he asked. “Wikipedia is so biased, it’s a constant war.” He suggested that Musk create what he called “Grokipedia.”

This past week, as the Wikipedia controversy reignited, Musk announced xAI would, in fact, offer up Grokipedia. Soon after, the Wikipedia page for Musk’s Grok was updated. The entry included a brief comparison to an effort almost 20 years earlier to create another Wikipedia alternative called Conservapedia.

Yeah, my initial take is "Conservapedia was pretty much a disaster, and there's a reason that people don't use it".

Like, go to Conservapedia's "evolution" article.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution

Like, you're going to have to create an entire alternate reality for people who have weird views on X, Y, or Z. And making it worse, there isn't overlap among all those groups. Like, maybe you're a young earth creationist, and you like that evolution article. But then maybe you don't buy into chemtrails. It looks like Conservapedia doesn't like chemtrails. So that's gonna piss off the chemtrail people.

There are lots of people on the right who are going to disagree with scientific consensus on something, but they don't all have the same set of views. They might all complain that Wikipedia doesn't fit with their views on particular point X, but that doesn't mean that they're going to go all happily accept the fringe views of some other group. And some views are just going to outright contradict each other. You could have a conservative Mormon, Amish, and a Catholic, but they're going to have some seriously clashing views on religion, even if they're all conservative. In broader society, the way we normally deal with that is to just let people make up their own mind on particular issues. But if you're trying to create a single "alternate reality" that all of them subscribe to, then you have to get them all on one page, which is going to be a real problem.

Maybe Musk could make Grok try to assess which fringe group that someone is in and automatically provide a version of truth in Grok's responses tailored to their preferences. But...that's not a Grokipedia, because the latter requires a unified view.