Advocates Can Influence LLM Values By Editing Wikipedia

This article is a summary of an original study: Brazilek, J., Navas, M., & Gnauck, A. (2026). Small edits, large models: How Wikipedia advocacy shapes LLM values. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19981454We’d like to thank Alexa Gnauck and Maria Navas for their indispensable contributions to this research. TL;DRWikipedia articles are weighted highly among LLM training data. Thus, we show that it’s possible for advocacy organisations to influence what LLMs say on certain topics, just by str...