arXiv:2608. 11816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-aligned distortion has been documented in China-origin text-based large language models (LLMs), but whether, and in what form, it arises in multimodal systems has not been systematically examined.
arXiv:2607. 29334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI developed by geopolitical rivals reaches citizens worldwide, raising concerns that it could sway public opinion or be rejected as foreign propaganda, with consequences for democratic discourse and information sovereignty.
The study investigates how a single politically charged framing term can influence large language models (LLMs) during translation tasks. By prompting eight models from Western, Chinese, and European origins to translate culturally attributed recipes across 17 languages under four framing conditions, the authors find that models resolve ambiguity rather than decline, with distinct behavior patterns tied to model families. Sensitivity to framing terms is consistent, showing that even subtle variations can modulate LLM behavior, raising concerns about implicit political judgments in translation contexts.
arXiv:2508.16013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in politically sensitive contexts, raising concerns about their susceptibility to ideologica...
The paper introduces the concept of summarization bias in large language models (LLMs), describing a systematic tendency for LLMs to represent narrative meaning as an abstract summary label rather than the reconstructable inferential structure that produces it. It frames this bias within the Bulut Doctrine’s told‑shown axis, arguing that LLMs fail in a specific direction: they default to told‑mode explicitness in generative tasks and reward told‑mode explicitness while under‑detecting shown‑mode suppression in evaluative tasks. The authors outline two regimes of bias, present preliminary evidence, and pre‑register a test protocol to validate or abandon the construct.
arXiv:2604. 14180v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We train a 318M-parameter Transformer language model from scratch on a curated corpus of 1.
arXiv:2607. 27232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how we consume information and form our worldview.
CNeo-Bench is a new benchmark comprising 4,759 Chinese neologisms, each with reference definitions and categorized by linguistic mechanisms such as phonetic substitution and visual character decomposition. The benchmark includes a two-tier evaluation framework that tests whether models can describe a neologism and whether they can manipulate its underlying mechanism. Evaluation of 18 large language models shows that most perform poorly on definition generation (below 40%) and exhibit a recognition‑manipulation gap, often paraphrasing rather than restoring the original form; few‑shot prompting helps but does not fully resolve the errors.
The paper introduces CMPM, a Chinese Multi-Panel Meme benchmark comprising 1,214 annotated samples that capture five structural types, ordering dependencies, panel-order constraints, and optional comment context. It defines a two-layer evaluation: Task 1 tests structure typing and order-sensitive panel sequencing, while Task 2 assesses Chinese meme explanation generation using human ratings across visual, panel, humor, context, and faithfulness dimensions. Benchmarking five large vision‑language models shows that accuracy on canonical displays does not guarantee order understanding, as performance drops sharply under shuffled conditions, and that Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT‑5.5 outperform open models in Task 2, with comment context providing only modest gains.
arXiv:2510. 08543v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) are deployed globally, it is important to assess their ability to reason across cultural contexts.
arXiv:2607. 22657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can reproduce disinformation-aligned narrative frames as plausible explanations, raising the question of whether existing machine-unlearning algorithms can suppress this behavior.
The paper "Prompt Revision as a Source of Cultural Bias in Text-to-Image Systems" investigates how commercial text‑to‑image models silently modify user prompts before generating images, a step that is often hidden from users. Using the multilingual benchmark WORLDVIEW, the authors audit the revision layer in DALL‑E‑3, Imagen‑4, and GPT‑Image‑1.5, finding that non‑Western and non‑Anglophone contexts are disproportionately marked, reduced to narrow vocabularies, and stereotyped. The study demonstrates that the revision layer itself is a previously undocumented causal source of cultural stereotyping, underscoring the need to audit deployed systems rather than just the underlying models.
arXiv:2608. 12334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the impressive multilingual capabilities of Large Language Models, the latent dynamics dictating language selection remain poorly understood.