ChatGPT 5.2 found to cite Grokipedia

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Elon Musk’s and xAI’s Grok-powered version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, is littered with falsehoods, white supremacy cheerleading and has a known far-right, pro-conspiracy bias.

That does not exclude it from being used as a source for ChatGPT 5.2, according to The Guardian, who found it cited the «encyclopedia» in responses to nine out of a dozen test questions.

The questions weren’t about the insurrection, Trump media bias or about HIV/AIDS, where Grokipedia has a known bias, but rather more obscure ones on Iranian funding and specific Holocaust deniers.

This illustrates how adverse groups, such as Russia’s Pravda, can flood the internet with falsehoods and have it picked up by an LLM scraping for content, and then later get picked up in responses.

— We apply safety filters to reduce the risk of surfacing links associated with high-severity harms, and ChatGPT clearly shows which sources informed a response through citations, OpenAI told The Guardian.

Read the full scoop at The Guardian.