As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it.
replyAdditionally, an encyclopedia reader likely cares about accuracy significantly more than average.
It would arguably be a benefit to Wikipedia to be pulled from Google search results, since Google prominence is the root of a huge fraction of all the misbehavior on the site.
replyI remember when Fox News was considered irrelevant compared to mainstream news outlets. Don’t underestimate the reach of billionaires with an ideological agenda.
replyFox News has been the #1 rated cable news network for over two decades. They've had more viewers than CNN and MSNBC for most of their existence. Calling them anything other than "mainstream" is just supporting their propaganda. They've always branded themselves as the scrappy outsider because it plays well with their audience, not because it reflects reality.
replyYes, and I’m talking about the time before that, when experts doubted whether Fox could survive. (I’m old.)
replyNah. Wikipedia is popular because it is the #1 search result for a lot of stuff. Most of people going there just want to look up something for a homework assignment, online argument, or whatever. If Grokipedia has an error rate 5%, compared to 1% for Wikipedia, it's probably still fine.
replyIf Wikipedia traffic shrinks down just to the true "encyclopedia reader" crowd, they will be in trouble, because I suspect that's less than 10% of their current donations. And Grokipedia is already starting to crop up in search results.
Wikipedia has an endowment big enough to sustain the site's basic maintenance, essentially forever. If donations disappeared then they would have to severely cut spending, however, I don't think it would be an existential threat.
reply> As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it.
replyFor now. With a little collusion, and a lot of money, it can be pushed as the front page of the internet.
What are you going to do if Google and Bing are convinced to rank its bullshit over Wikipedia?
Most people don't change the defaults.
> For now. With a little collusion, and a lot of money, it can be pushed as the front page of the internet.
replyI know it has come up near the front of at least one of my Kagi searches, because it's now on my blocklist.
To certain demographics, adherence to facts appears to be a left wing bias.
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