Lagos, Nigeria – Omo, if you no hear wetin Elon Musk dey plan, make you sharp up! The billionaire don drop fresh gist of him new venture wey dem dey call Grokipedia. Na this new digital encyclopedia wey go dey use AI power do dem thing, but e fit waka like Wikipedia small-smaall. E dey make plenty people gree and plenty people dey vex.
Grokipedia go serve like Wikipedia but with better twist. Elon talk say dem go fit mix artificial intelligence with collaborative editing, but na without wetin him call ‘political filtering’ (abi na the wahala wey dey for town wey him wan clear?). The aim na to gather facts, but some people don dey talk say deere go come bias again.
All this wahala don start after Larry Sanger, wey be one of the co-founders of Wikipedia, don come out dey talk say Wikipedia don lose im neutrality. E dey claim sey articles dey show heavy favoritism for liberal agenda, especially for topics like climate change and politics. The guy don even compare Wikipedia to ‘running bus wey dey go down the road dey knock innocent people’ (na man wey grip the mic for this gist).
Elon waka come with Grokipedia because he believe say people need another way to source information without all dis ideological wahala, but wey we fit ask: how e go take work? The Grokipedia wey dem talk say don already pack more than 885,000 articles, but Wikipedia don get around 7 million! (E don clear say dem dey quench for fast food but still dey compete with big food market).
But make we no forget, the words wey dey show for Grokipedia still dey give credit to Wikipedia. Dem talk say dem dey adapt some content from there, and when you open one page, you go see dem even write ‘the content is adapted from…’ (hmm, wetin we go call this one?).
As we dey yarn, critics dey call on the CEO of Wikimedia, Maryana Iskander, make she clarify wetin dey happen for their encyclopedia. She don talk sey plenty of the content on Wikipedia dey neutral and de wahala wey dey happen na just small percentage wey concern political and social issues.
The clash don even land for the US House Oversight Committee because some lawmakers dey vex sey dem go investigate content manipulation, and na wetin they dey consider no be joke. But Maryana don talk sey Wikipedia dey run transparent processes wey people fit verify. For dem, the editing go always dey public, as plenty volunteers dey check wahala from every angle.
So, for this matter, it dey show sey we still need to look wetin Grokipedia go bring to the table. Will e really give us fresh perspective or na just another place to argue? Make we watch how di matter go unfold, abi na slugfest wey we dey expect?
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