This is a real banger of a paper. The example of a model being weirdly focused on jasmine (lol) makes me increasingly think that single-point-of-access models don't really consider who their audience is. Jasmine is a super legible cultural marker for people outside, but is so, _so_ generic.
Sireesh Gururaja
🎠How do LLMs (mis)represent culture?
🧮 How often?
🧠Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
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