As it is, Grokipedia is not a threat to Wikipedia because relative to Wikipedia, almost nobody is using it.
Additionally, an encyclopedia reader likely cares about accuracy significantly more than average.
Additionally, an encyclopedia reader likely cares about accuracy significantly more than average.
Yeah, but cable news only displaced local and broadcast TV news as the main news source after 9/11, and already by 2010 had itself been displaced by online media. There was only a very brief moment in history where "the #1 rated cable news network" was really an indicator of being a mainstream news source.
Or the audience's need to have their wrong opinions validated.
For now. With a little collusion, and a lot of money, it can be pushed as the front page of the internet.
What are you going to do if Google and Bing are convinced to rank its bullshit over Wikipedia?
Most people don't change the defaults.
I know it has come up near the front of at least one of my Kagi searches, because it's now on my blocklist.
If Wikipedia traffic shrinks down just to the true "encyclopedia reader" crowd, they will be in trouble, because I suspect that's less than 10% of their current donations. And Grokipedia is already starting to crop up in search results.