What happened
A University of the Basque Country and Cardiff University team tested 8 models in 24 languages across 11 fields; five models named Japan most often, two named the US, and one tied.
Why it matters
The result suggests the countries an AI surfaces when asked about culture are shaped by which model is used, not simply by which culture is most prominent, the researchers indicate.
WHO IT HITSBusinesses and researchers using LLMs to answer culture-related questions may need to check which countries the models default to, since the choice varies by model.
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