The world’s richest space baron this week unveiled Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia created by his outfit xAI. He called it an “open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge” and cheerfully announced plans to etch copies of it in oxide, fling them into orbit, and stash them on the Moon and Mars “to preserve it for the future. Foundation.”

Musk has long ranted that Wikipedia, or “Wokepedia” as he calls it, is “an extension of legacy media propaganda.”

The problem is, Grokipedia isn’t some brave new frontier of free thought. It is a glitchy, sycophantic clone of Wikipedia that looks like it was coded after too much Red Bull. Pop in for a browse and you’ll find Tommy Robinson described as a “citizen journalist” in heroic tones, Kremlin-friendly lines about Russia “denazifying” Ukraine, and a lovingly detailed note on Musk’s 20lb weight loss attributed to intermittent fasting.

To add insult to idiocy, much of the site’s content is cut and pasted from Wikipedia.

This means that there is still no reference made to Fudzilla, because the humans at Wackypedia never believed it existed and suppressed all attempts to create an entry.

Even Grok, the xAI chatbot that lends its name to the venture, isn’t buying the hype. It admitted, “While Grokipedia improves on specific Wikipedia flaws... its AI gatekeeping creates a centralised ‘Musk’s truth’ filter, lacking Wikipedia’s distributed checks,” and that it “trades one set of biases for another, often with less accountability.”

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger recently complained that the site’s original ideals were being “sacrificed in favour of ideology.” But none of his nine fixes involved replacing volunteers with a chatbot worshipping at the altar of Elon.

Grokipedia proves that humans, messy, biased, argumentative humans, still have a better shot at truth than a billionaire’s bot army.