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  • 1Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines, Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin, Dublin D02 PN40, Ireland.

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AI encyclopedia Grokipedia offers an alternative to Wikipedia but doesn't uniformly correct biases. It shows topic-specific ideological shifts, favoring narrative over citations, raising concerns about AI knowledge systems.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Social Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Science

Background:

  • Wikipedia faces criticism for ideological and structural biases.
  • AI-generated encyclopedias like Grokipedia aim to provide more objective information.
  • The effectiveness of AI in correcting human-generated content biases is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To computationally compare Grokipedia and Wikipedia content.
  • To assess whether AI-driven encyclopedias can systematically reduce biases.
  • To analyze differences in content, complexity, and ideological orientation.

Main Methods:

  • Large-scale computational comparison of 17,790 matched article pairs.
  • Analysis of article length, syntactic complexity, and citation density.
  • Measurement of ideological orientation of cited sources, particularly in religion and history topics.

Main Results:

  • Grokipedia articles are longer, more complex, and have fewer references per word than Wikipedia articles.
  • A bimodal distribution of similarity was observed; many articles matched, but a subset diverged.
  • Divergent articles showed a rightward political bias shift in cited sources, especially for religion and history.

Conclusions:

  • Grokipedia exhibits selective, topic-specific divergence rather than uniform bias correction.
  • AI encyclopedias may prioritize narrative expansion over citation-based verification.
  • The study raises questions about transparency, provenance, and governance in AI knowledge systems.