Assessing Cross-Cultural Alignment between ChatGPT and Human Societies: An Empirical Study

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The recent release of ChatGPT has garnered widespread recognition for its exceptional ability to generate human-like responses in dialogue. Given its usage by users from various nations and its training on a vast multilingual corpus that incorporates diverse cultural and societal norms, it is crucial to evaluate its effectiveness in cultural adaptation. In this paper, we investigate the underlying cultural background of ChatGPT by analyzing its responses to questions designed to quantify human cultural differences. Our findings suggest that, when prompted with American context, ChatGPT exhibits a strong alignment with American culture, but it adapts less effectively to other cultural contexts. Furthermore, by using different prompts to probe the model, we show that English prompts reduce the variance in model responses, flattening out cultural differences and biasing them towards American culture. This study provides valuable insights into the cultural implications of ChatGPT and highlights the necessity of greater diversity and cultural awareness in language technologies.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publikationsdato2023
Sider53-67
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781959429517
StatusUdgivet - 2023
Begivenhed1st Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP, C3NLP 2023 - Dubrovnik, Kroatien
Varighed: 5 maj 2023 → …

Konference

Konference1st Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP, C3NLP 2023
LandKroatien
ByDubrovnik
Periode05/05/2023 → …

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
Thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from China Scholarship Council. (CSC No. 202206070002 and No. 202206160052). Yong Cao is supported by the Zhejiang Lab's International Talent Fund for Young Professionals.

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© 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics.

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