Akira Urushibata on How Grokipedia Fails to Work
No intelligence, no accuracy, no nothing!
Many Grokipedia articles are copies from Wikipedia. They have the following notice at the bottom:
"The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."
Who decides which articles should be written by Grok, and which should be copies of Wikipedia? Does Grok make the decision? Or does some human give instructions?
I also wonder what conditions apply for the pages which do not provide a license message.
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Errors in history articles
For articles of the first 21 Japanese emperors, Grokipedia uses content copied from corresponding Wikipedia articles for eight, judging from the license message at the bottom.
I notice significant errors in Grokipedia articles for the 6th Emperor Koan and the 18th Emperor Hanzei. These articles are not derived from Wikipedia.
Emperor Koan https://grokipedia.com/page/Emperor_K%C5%8Dan
The Grokipedia article gives the wrong character for the "Ko" on "Koan". It claims that he is the 7th in line having succeeded his elder brother. According to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki (the oldest Japanese history books), the sources mentioned in the article he was the 6th, succeeding his father. In addition it claims that he is the father of Emperor Sujin. Sujin is 10th in line and great-great-grandson of Koan according to the above sources.
Emperor Hanzei https://grokipedia.com/page/Emperor_Hanzei
The Kojiki ... presents Emperor Hanzei, identified as His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake (Mizuhawake no Mikoto), as the seventh sovereign in the imperial lineage. ... He is described as residing in the palace of Shibakaki at Tajihi, from where he ruled the empire, succeeding his elder brother, Emperor Nintoku.[5]
Nintoku, the 16th emperor is not Hanzei's elder brother but rather his father. Between Nintoku and Hanzei ruled Richu, Hanzei's elder brother. The source URL page [5] does not say anything about Hanzei's brothers: https://sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj143.htm . We can't tell where Grok go the wrong information.
To summarize, according to Grokipedia three men are identified as "7th emperor of Japan". It is an error akin to stating that John Quincy Adams, and Ulysses S. Grant were both "the 7th U.S. president" in addition to Andrew Jackson.
I believe most people would not consider a publication with errors of this magnitude a reliable source of information.