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Measuring Cultural Erasure in Large Language Model Outputs

Research contribution: an evaluation framework that operationalizes 'cultural erasure' (omission and simplification, adapted from media-studies symbolic annihilation) into measurable metrics for LLM outputs, applied via crowd-coded thematic analysis of model-generated descriptions of global cities and of LLM travel recommendations to quantify representational disparities across world regions.

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Risks of Cultural Erasure in Large Language Models Rida Qadri, Aida M. Davani, Kevin Robinson*

This NLP/AI-ethics research paper (cs.CL, Google) argues for evaluating large language models through the lens of 'cultural erasure', a concept adapted from media and cultural studies (Tuchman's symb…

Measuring Cultural Erasure in Large Language Model Outputs

Risks of Cultural Erasure in Large Language Models Rida Qadri*, Aida M. Davani*, Kevin Robinson*

Risks of Cultural Erasure in Large Language Models Rida Qadri, Aida M. Davani, Kevin Robinson*