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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP)
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Publication date2023
Pages53-67
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429517
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event1st Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP, C3NLP 2023 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 5 May 2023 → …

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Conference1st Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP, C3NLP 2023
LandCroatia
ByDubrovnik
Periode05/05/2023 → …

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