AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 76/10
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Metaphors We Compute By: A Computational Audit of Cultural Translation vs. Thinking in LLMs
New research reveals that Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit cultural bias and Western defaultism when generating metaphors across different cultural contexts. The study found that LLMs act more as cultural translators using dominant Western frameworks rather than true culturally-aware reasoning systems, even when prompted with specific cultural identities.