Geopolitical Divisions Across Languages in Large Language Models
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arXiv:2609.20005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People increasingly turn to AI chatbots for news and explanations of world events. But do they receive the same political answers when they ask in different languages? Here we show that the language of a question can change how the same AI systems assess the war in Ukraine. We ask GPT, Claude and Gemini to evaluate twenty statements about the war in 112 languages, collecting 67,200 responses. The balance between Russia-leaning and Ukraine-leaning responses differs across languages. When we group responses by countries' official languages, they fo
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.20005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People increasingly turn to AI chatbots for news and explanations of world events.
- But do they receive the same political answers when they ask in different languages?
- Here we show that the language of a question can change how the same AI systems assess the war in Ukraine.
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