Comment by appreciatorBus

A few comments: - a "corporate" encyclopedia does not mean all articles are biased, but it does mean that you know who wrote it and you can use knowledge of the author's biases to inform your interpretation of the text - Walmart may be bad in all kinds of ways, but it's not at all comparable to autocracy

I'm not trying to argue that Wikipedia or any other source can meet some utopian ideal of objectivity, but I am concerned that the anonymity of Wikipedia allows it to be weaponized in new ways, and despite this, it retains a gloss of "community" and "grassroots" that was undoubtedly appropriate at one time, but probably isn't any more.

This would, IMO, be bad enough when humans were the main consumers - they could be mislead in subtle ways that influence their political opinions & actions, but at least it was possible for the affected humans to update their opinions with other sources. However if AI is treating Wikipedia as basically fact and encoding it within the model, then it's not clear how mistakes can be corrected or even noticed.

IMO a worse problem than collectivists arguing for Walmart is collectivists slowly whitewashing the murderous historical record of collectivist regimes.