of course what humanities academics will never admit but is obviously the case for anyone who actually uses LLMs is that the viewpoints LLMs tend to "collapse" are almost invariably irrational, bigoted, or reactionary viewpoints; the "cultural traditions" they suppress are the ones that *should* be
ellie lockhart (she/they)
New essay with @lauraknelson.bsky.social on AI and cultural sociology. Revisiting what made word embeddings so useful for cultural sociology, we argue that contemporary LLMs risk collapsing perspectival differences and discuss provisional solutions that might help recover cultural variation.
