Jérémy Perez, Grgur Kovač, Corentin Léger, et al. · 2024 · ICLR 2025 Read the source When text passes along chains of language models, small biases at each step compound into ‘cultural attractors’. Toxicity is a stronger attractor than properties like length, and open-ended instructions attract more than constrained ones. Questions it bears on What spreads between agents Cumulative culture or only conventions