Comparing Moral Values in Western English-speaking societies and LLMs with Word Associations (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on extensive corpora to learn linguistic patterns, contextual nuances, and implicit elements of human values. |
| Approach: | They propose to use word associations as low-level underlying representations to obtain a more robust picture of LLMs’ moral reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reveals detailed but systematic differences between LLMs and human associations. |
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