Tim Bray on Grokipedia

At a glance, Grokipedia seems quite promising to me, considering how new it is. There are plenty of external citations, so rather than relying on a model to recall information internally, it’s likely effectively just summarizing external references. The fact that it’s automatically generated at scale means it can be iterated on to improve fact checking reliability, exclude certain known sources as unreliable, and ensure it has up-to-date and valid citation links. We’ll have to wait and see how it changes over time, but I expect an AI driven online encyclopedia to eventually replace the need for a fully human wikipedia.

> There are plenty of external citations, so rather than relying on a model to recall information internally, it’s likely effectively just summarizing external references.

And according to Tim Bray, it's doing that badly.

> All the references are just URLs and at least some of them entirely fail to support the text.