{"id":1043,"date":"2026-01-25T03:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/report-reveals-that-openais-gpt-5-2-model-cites-grokipedia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:25:32","slug":"report-reveals-that-openais-gpt-5-2-model-cites-grokipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/report-reveals-that-openais-gpt-5-2-model-cites-grokipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Report reveals that OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its &#8220;most advanced frontier model for professional work,&#8221; but tests conducted by the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/24\/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5.2 model cited <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html\">Grokipedia<\/a>, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran or the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s report, ChatGPT used Grokipedia as a source for claims about the Iranian government being tied to telecommunications company MTN-Irancell and questions related to Richard Evans, a British historian who served as an expert witness during a libel trial for Holocaust denier David Irving. However, the <em>Guardian<\/em> noted ChatGPT didn&#8217;t use Grokipedia when it came to a prompt asking about media bias against Donald Trump and other controversial topics.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI released the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/openai-releases-gpt-52-to-take-on-google-and-anthropic-185029007.html\">GPT-5.2 model<\/a> in December to better perform at professional use, like creating spreadsheets or handling complex tasks. Grokipedia preceded GPT-5.2&#8217;s release, but ran into some controversy when it was seen <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/authorities-probe-holocaust-denial-responses-from-xs-grok-155835701.html\">including citations<\/a> to neo-Nazi forums. A study done by US researchers also showed that the AI-generated encyclopedia <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251114-musk-s-grokipedia-leans-on-questionable-sources-study-says\">cited<\/a> &#8220;questionable&#8221; and &#8220;problematic&#8221; sources.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the <em>Guardian<\/em> report, OpenAI told the outlet that its GPT-5.2 model searches the web for a &#8220;broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints,&#8221; but applies &#8220;safety filters to reduce the risk of surfacing links associated with high-severity harms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/report-reveals-that-openais-gpt-52-model-cites-grokipedia-192532977.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/25\/report-reveals-that-openais-gpt-5-2-model-cites-grokipedia\/\">Report reveals that OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its &#8220;most advanced frontier model for professional work,&#8221; but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI&#8217;s GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran or the Holocaust. As seen in the Guardian&#8216;s report, ChatGPT used Grokipedia as a source for claims about the Iranian government being tied to telecommunications company MTN-Irancell and questions related to Richard Evans, a British historian who served as an expert witness during a libel trial for Holocaust denier David Irving. However, the Guardian noted ChatGPT didn&#8217;t use Grokipedia when it came to a prompt asking about media bias against Donald Trump and other controversial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}