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IndexAI & Machine LearningNo. 47 declining

Grokipedia

Online encyclopedia operated by xAI

-11%
vs its own baseline
year on year
-8.2%
per month, last 90 days
71
confidence / 100
0k 80k 160k 240k where it used to sit Oct 25 Dec 25 Feb 26 Apr 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 47 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 0% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

0.87×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

67%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

0%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.86× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

332 days

Confirmed somewhere else

Independent activity outside Wikipedia. Corroboration raises confidence; it is never required.

1 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Grokipedia is an AI-generated online encyclopedia operated by the American company xAI, founded by Elon Musk. The site was launched on October 27, 2025. Some entries are generated by Grok, a large language model owned by the same company (xAI), while others were forked from Wikipedia, with some altered and some used nearly verbatim. Articles cannot be directly edited, though logged-in visitors to the encyclopedia can suggest new articles or corrections via a pop-up form, which are reviewed by Grok, and Grok makes…

Excerpt from Grokipedia on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

Near this on the curve

AI & Machine Learning
043

Reasoning model new

AI & Machine Learning · 6k views/mo
+37%
vs baseline
declining
031

Generative AI new

AI & Machine Learning · 47k views/mo ·1 outside source
15×
vs baseline
rising