arXiv AI By Svetlana Gorovaia, Angelica Henestrosa, Ivan P. Yamshchikov

We're Cooked! - Probing LLM Political Alignment Via Conflict-Framed Recipe Translation

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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.

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