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LLMs are Wikipedia-Pilled

A Single Wikipedia Editor controls LLM output on Peter Thiel

“Deamonpen” has over 80% authorship on topics such as Matt Danzeisen, Jeff Thomas (model), and Christian Angermayer.

Deamonpen authorship over 80%

This authorship % gives him control over LLM content related to Peter Thiel, with LLMs often quoting verbatim.

Specs: Sonnet-5, max-tokens 8192, thinking= “adaptive”, web_search max_uses = 6

LLM quoting Wikipedia verbatim

Our Approach

We started by identifying authorship of Palantir.

Palantir authorship

For 8 years, the main author “Deamonpen” contributed to esoteric articles on Chinese and European history.

Chinese history contributions European history contributions

But, on May 15th 2025, Deamonpen pivoted towards contributing near-exclusively to articles about Peter Thiel.

May 2025 pivot to Thiel topics

We identified 42 articles, using “Username:Deamonpen” and “Keyword:Thiel”.

Thiel-related articles list Thiel-related articles list continued

Even in articles where he has low authorship, such as Jeffrey Epstein (1.39%), Deamonpen’s content is exclusively focused on Peter Thiel.

Epstein Wikipedia text focused on Thiel

Citation density across these 42 articles is ~4x higher than other Wikipedia articles, which increases LLM weighting of these articles.

Citation density comparison

As such, Deamonpen created and owns “The Thiel Web”, an interconnected and self-referencing net of 42 Thiel-related Wikipedia articles.

Thiel Web network Thiel Web detail

Evidence

LLM output parrots Wikipedia content verbatim.

LLM loads Wikipedia article into context window and then draws on this content extensively.

Bollea v. Gawker Verbatim

LLMs copy the same “stripped naked” grammatical mistake as Wikipedia, which sources the quotation from Yahoo — link.

Specs: Sonnet-5, max-tokens 8192, thinking= “adaptive”, web_search max_uses = 6

Bollea v. Gawker Claude vs Wikipedia

Crystal McKellar Verbatim

Specs: Sonnet-5, max-tokens 8192, thinking= “adaptive”, web_search max_uses = 6

Crystal McKellar Claude vs Wikipedia

Christian Angermayer Verbatim

Specs: Sonnet-5, max-tokens 8192, thinking= “adaptive”, web_search max_uses = 6

Christian Angermayer Claude vs Wikipedia

Kevin Harrington Verbatim

Specs: Sonnet-5, max-tokens 8192, thinking= “adaptive”, web_search max_uses = 6

Kevin Harrington Claude vs Wikipedia

Conclusion

LLMs are Wikipedia-Pilled

  1. 01Wikipedia is an unreliable source that is easy to manipulate
  2. 02Nation states and terrorists control Wikipedia in order to control LLMs
  3. 03From our research, no-one at the foundation labs is genuinely concerned about Wikipedia as a primary attack vector for state propaganda