xAI's New Terms Formalize Grokipedia, Quietly Restrict User Legal Rights

Summary: xAI has updated its Terms of Service, a move that formally adds the "Grokipedia" service but more significantly alters its legal framework. The new terms cut the time limit for users to file federal claims from two years to one. They also expand legal protections to xAI's "corporate affiliates," like X Corp. (which owns X), by forcing all disputes into a specific Texas jurisdiction.

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What changed?

On November 5, 2025, Visualping detected a significant update to xAI's Terms of Service (Consumer). The new terms replace the June 2025 version and introduced several major changes.

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1. The Formalization of Grokipedia

2. Significant Updates to Legal Terms

Deeper in the terms of services, several key legal clauses affecting user rights were changed, including:

Limitations Period (Time to Sue)

Where Users Can Sue (and Be Sued):

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Why this matters

The official addition of Grokipedia to the terms is largely legal housekeeping. Since its launch, Grokipedia has been criticized for accuracy problems, with major outlets noting its tendency to present right-leaning or Musk-aligned perspectives and to spread misinformation.

The quieter, but more noteworthy, part of this update is the series of changes to xAI's legal terms. These updates introduce several restrictive conditions that limit user rights and build a stronger legal defense for the company and its affiliates.

Limitation Period The most direct change for users is the new "Limitations Period." The previous terms gave users a two-year window to file any legal claim. The new terms cut this in half for federal claims (such as for copyright infringement or privacy violations), giving users just one year to take legal action against xAI. This significantly shortens the window for a user to file a federal lawsuit.

Legal Shield for Corporate Affiliates (like X Corp.) A major new legal shield has also been extended to protect xAI's "corporate affiliates," such as X Corp. (which owns X).

The terms extend the strict Texas-only court jurisdiction rules to these same affiliates, forcing any individual user who wants to sue X Corp. over a Grok-related dispute to do so in a court in Texas' Tarrant County, as per xAI's Terms of Service.

"One-Way" Street for Lawsuits The update also added a new clause that allows xAI to sue a user in any country where that user resides. However, users are still required to file all their disputes back in Texas, making it easier for xAI to sue its users than for users to sue xAI.

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