The more likely and far more mundane outcome isn’t that LLM providers actively tip the scales, but rather that they just entrench existing winners. As others h

The more likely and far more mundane outcome isn’t that LLM providers actively tip the scales, but rather that they just entrench existing winners. As others have pointed out, it's a flywheel: Popular library gains traction → LLMs are trained to produce the “most likely response”, which naturally aligns with what’s already popular → people stop seeking alternative solutions and instead double down on the existing mainstream choices. (Hypothetically) It's not that OpenAI decides to push AWS, it's just that at the time it was trained AWS was the only real option so it just regurgitates a common view from a point in time. To extend your analogy, the more realistic scenario isn’t that kids slip in extreme view points and take them as ground truth in their history assignments, it’s that they don’t take a stance on anything at all: Their essays become like CSPAN transcripts, perfectly regurgitating what happened without taking any position or applying any critical thinking one way or the other. Imagine kids writing about civil rights, but all their reference material was stuck in time at 1953: That's what's more likely to happen.