#39
Can people trust information (Grokipedia, Community Notes)?
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First asked Nov 2, 2023, most recently Oct 31, 2025. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 2 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 0 from the archive transcript only, 3 unverified caption-only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Nov 2, 2023 · In Conversation with Rishi Sunak · asked by Rishi Sunak
Q: What was the reasoning behind that and why do you think that is a better way to do that?
Yeah, part of the problem is if you empower people as sensors, then, well, there's going to be some amount of bias they have and then whoever appoints the censors is effectively in control of information. So then the idea behind Community Notes is, well, how do we have a consensus driven, I mean, so it's not really censoring it, but consensus driven approach to truth. How do we, or how do we, how do we make things …
Oct 31, 2025 · Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing: Grokipedia · asked by unknown
Q: Did you seed it with Wikipedia? Actually take a step back. How did you do this? … But meaning like totally unsupervised, just complete training run on its own, totally synthetic data, no seeded set, nothing?
Well, it was only just recently possible for us to do this. So we finished training on a maximally true seeking version of Grok that is good at cogent analysis. So breaking down any given argument into its axiomatic elements, assessing whether those axioms are, you know, the basic test for cogency, the axioms are likely to be true, they're not contradictory, that the conclusion most likely follows from those axioms. So we just trained Grok on a lot of critical thinking.
Oct 31, 2025 · Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing: Grokipedia · asked by unknown
Q: As you destroy the woke mind virus kind of control of the system and as you bring truth to the system, whether the system is through Grokipedia or through X, do people just look for confirmation bias and they actually don't accept the truth? … Or do you think people are actually going to see the truth and change?
It is remarkable how much people believe things simply because it is the belief of their in-group, you know, whatever their sort of political or ideological tribe is. … So, yeah, people, at least some people, they will stick to whatever their ideological views are, whatever the sort of political tribal views are, no matter what. The evidence could be staring them in the face and they're just going to be a flat-earther.
Oct 31, 2025 · Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing: Grokipedia · asked by unknown
Q: I think the ability to hit @Grok in a reply and ask it a question in the thread has really become like a truth seeking missile on the platform. … I think it would be really interesting if Grok on really powerful threads did its own version of community notes and had it sitting there ahead of time.
I mean, essentially every post on X, unless it's like advertising or something, has the Grok symbol on it. And you just tap that symbol and you're one tap away from a Grok analysis. … Grok will research the X post and give you an accurate answer. … I do think this is consistent with, we want X to be the best source of truth on the planet by far. … Where you hear any and all points of view, but where those points of view are corrected by human editors with community notes.
Oct 31, 2025 · The Joe Rogan Experience · asked by Joe Rogan
Q: Could it be able to decipher that and say this is really what's going on?
Yes, but you have to try very hard to do that. So with Grok, we've tried very hard to get Grok to get to the truth of things. And it's only really recently that we've been able to have some breakthroughs on that front. And it's taken an immense amount of effort for us to overcome basically all the bullshit that's on the Internet and for GROK to actually say what's true and to be consistent in what it says. So it's …
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@elonmusk · Feb 16, 2026
Grokipedia is growing like kelp on steroids 😂 Please check https://t.co/op5s4ZiSwh articles you know something about and suggest edits for accuracy. Would be much appreciated. This will be by far most comprehensive open source, no copyright distillation of knowledge. https://t.co/yzW4ChHxhB
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Feb 22, 2026
@CetaceanKim @MarioNawfal We are adding @CommunityNotes functionality to @Grokipedia to make accurate modification by people possible
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Sep 5, 2026
@FischerKing64 Community Notes gets to the truth
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Oct 1, 2026
Grokipedia v0.3 just released. Join @spacexai if you want to create Encyclopedia Galactica! https://t.co/hYTjTBbddg
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Oct 9, 2026
We’re just going to have @Grok Bots manage Grokipedia https://t.co/qu1csa2TWp
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