Elon Musk's Grokipedia has put the entire artificial intelligence (AI) in a situation where AI now relies on another AI for citations and references. Grokipedia is an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched by Elon Musk’s company xAI in late October 2025 as a rival to Wikipedia. The AI encyclopedia uses Grok to generate and curate content by adapting or rewriting Wikipedia articles.
The fact that Grokipedia rewrites Wikipedia articles alone got people questioning the idea. In addition to that, people are worried that the AI encyclopedia contains factual errors, misleading claims, and weak or questionable citations compared to Wikipedia, which depends on human for articles, corrections, edits, citations, and suggestions.
However, the part that got people worried the most is that some AI models, including some versions of ChatGPT, have begun citing Grokipedia as a reference for certain queries. People are saying that since Grokipedia’s reliability is questioned, another AI sourcing information from it will probably create another messy problem.
Due to this, many people want Grokipedia blocked from accessing their site, info, blogs, and other projects AI accesses so that AI responses and search results will not be affected. Researchers are saying if Grokipedia is integrated into AI training and search ecosystems, it could create a loop where its errors spread beyond repair.
In fact, in many online communities like Reddit, users are very upset with the way Grokipedia manipulates SEO and how it repurposes content and affects traffic. Many of these users are webmasters, and they've discussed blocking Grokipedia's site domain in browsers, ad blockers, sitemaps, robot txts, or content filters to avoid seeing its pages and crawling their websites.
How to block Grokipedia
Answers to this question depend on the purpose you're blocking Grokipedia for. If you're a webmaster, you can simple use sitemaps and robot txtx to block Grok AI. You know, Grokipedia relies on Grok AI to curate and write contents. So, once Grok AI is blocked from accessing your site, Grokipedia won't be able to repurpose your contents.
Another method that works is using Cloudflare's Block AI Bot. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the Security Settings page. Go to Settings, and filter by bot traffic. This tool will help you to rewrite your robots.txt to block any AI bot and crawler you select. This tool does not only block Grok AI, which scrapes content from websites to train Grokipedia; you can also use it to block other AI chatbots, like ChatGPT and Gemini, that scrape your content without consent.
However, if you just want to block Grokipedia from showing in your search results on Google, Bing, or any other search engine you use, kindly block the AI encyclopedia using the site domain in browsers, ad blockers, or content filters. They will help you to eliminate Grokipedia's pages from appearing in anything you do online.
In conclusion, Grokipedia's reliability indeed needs to be questioned because the AI encyclopedia relies totally on Grok AI to curate, generate, edit, and add to the encyclopedia. It never uses human writers like Wikipedia, and this is why people still prefer to use Wikipedia. But Elon Musk calls Grokipedia an improvement over Wikipedia and aims to eliminate human bias, promoting it as a better kind of encyclopedia.
