Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
by leoedin on Sunday February 15, 2026 @09:30AM
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This is perhaps true from the "language model" point of view, but surely from the "knowledge" point of view an LLM is prioritising a few "correct" data sources?
I wonder about this a lot when I ask LLMs niche technical questions. Often there is only one canonical source of truth. Surely it's somehow internally prioritising the official documentation? Or is it querying the documentation in the background and inserting it into the context window?
Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
by direwolf20 on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:10PM
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LLM companies already do this. Both Reddit and Stack Overflow turned to shit (but much more profitable shit) when they sold their archives to the AI companies for lots of money.
Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
by Idesmi on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @08:31AM
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It's happening
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01/15/wikipedia-ce...
Although editors paid directly by the Foundation are not the majority of Wikipedia.
THe problem with LLMs is that a single token (or even a single book) isn't really worth that much. It's not like human writing, where we'll pay far more for "Harry Potter" and "The Art of Computer Programming" than some romance trash with three reads on Kindle.