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When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings

Norms & CultureContagion & Transmission

Jérémy Perez, Grgur Kovač, Corentin Léger, et al. · 2024 · ICLR 2025

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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.

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