I called up Stephen Harrison because he has spent a whole lot of time trying to understand something that I do not.

Elon Musk's new AI-generated encyclopedia.

I have spent a fair amount of time on Grogapedia, and it's pretty interesting, I have to tell you.

Was this delightful time? Did you enjoy your time on Grapakopedia?

I groaned a few times. I have to say, you know, sometimes the Grapherpedia article goes longer, and it introduces sort of AI-generated hallucinations. And I'm just like,

wow, how is this happening? A hallucinating encyclopedia, not exactly what I'm looking for when

I'm doing the research. Right. No, it's definitely not like an alternative encyclopedia, really.

It's got a lot of flaws. Stephen's area of expertise is Wikipedia, so it's possible he's slightly biased here.

But his criticisms are not small ones.

Take, for example, those hallucinations.

It adds details like, for example, if you look up a journalist, I've been looking at different

journalists, and it'll just randomly say that they live in New York.

So it just assumes like you're a coastal elite, essentially, if you write words.

Exactly, right, yeah.

At this point, I asked Stephen to pull up Elon Musk's Grockapedia page.

It is very, very long.

But if you dig in, you'll find these lines that are so telling to me. First of all,

because they are way over the necessary word count with lots of parentheticals, typical AI. But also,

because Grock portrays Musk through such stubbornly rose-colored lenses. While Groghapedia notes

Musk's social media leadership has been scrutinized,

it also says criticism of him has come mostly from, quote, legacy media outlets that exhibit

systemic left-leaning tilts in coverage. He's kind of trying to self-author himself, right? And I think

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