From Grok to Grokipedia: Sociological Propaganda and Chatbot Epistemology

Susan Schneider’s article (2025) on the epistemology of Chatbots is the start to a much larger conversation scholars and educators need to have about the influence these technologies have on knowledge and knowledge production. To that end, I wish to expand this conversation to an aspect briefly mentioned in her paper; the use of these technologies by bad actors and propagandists to shape the worldview of users. And there is no more pressing example than the movement of X’s Chatbot Grok from mere online bot to a Wikipedia-clone with recent the launch of Grokipedia.