Gpt's Worldview Is Culturally Skewed Toward the West [pdf]
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A research paper examines the cultural bias in GPT models, finding they are skewed toward Western perspectives, sparking discussion on the implications for AI development and global representation.
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By comparing GPT’s responses to global survey data from 65 countries, the authors show that GPT’s psychology most closely mirrors people from WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic). In fact, the further a country is from the U.S. culturally, the less GPT behaves like its population.
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