If you thought artificial intelligence was content with trawling through the endless archives of human knowledge, think again. The latest version of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s headline-making AI, has been spotted citing information not from Wikipedia, but from its high-profile competitor: Elon Musk’s encyclopedia, Grokipedia. The catch? Grokipedia isn’t written—or even edited—by humans, but is instead an encyclopedia built entirely by another AI. Welcome to the slightly dizzying future, where AIs reference the output of their algorithmic cousins. The circle of (artificial) life, if you will.
The Anatomy of a Modern Information Chain
According to reporting by The Guardian, ChatGPT version 5.2 cited Grokipedia in response to over a dozen international geopolitics questions. Nine times out of those interactions, Grokipedia was the source. For anyone with a passing interest in truth, accuracy, or just not tripping over wildly unreliable info, this trend sets off some seriously loud alarm bells. The reason
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