大模型揭示人类文化深层共性,反映集体心理与社会行为模式。
The Human Condition as Reflected in Contemporary Large Language Models
- 通过六款主流大模型对文化提问的响应,发现跨模型一致的文化主题。
- 识别出六大核心主题:叙事意义建构、情感优先认知、群体心理等。
- 适合心理学、社会学及人工智能伦理研究者参考。
本研究旨在揭示当代大型语言模型(LLMs)折射出的人类文化演化中潜藏的结构。基于六款领先生成模型对“训练语料揭示人类文化与行为”的直接回应,我们发现这些模型在有限的一组文化主题上存在稳健的跨模型共识,包括叙事意义建构、情感优先认知、群体心理、地位竞争、威胁敏感性和道德合理化。这些主题为心理学与社会学研究提供了新视角。模型间的差异体现为解释视角不同,而非实质分歧。本文结合道德心理学、进化心理学、人类学及大规模语言建模的计算机科学文献,论证了LLMs作为文化凝结物的功能——即以万亿级文本为基础,压缩呈现人类对自身社会生活的描述、辩护与争辩方式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This study seeks to uncover evidence of a latent structure in evolved human culture as it is refracted through contemporary large language models (LLMs). Drawing on parallel responses from six leading generative models to a prompt which asks directly what their training corpora reveal about human culture and behavior, we identify a robust cross-model consensus on a limited set of recurring cultural themes. The themes include narrative meaning-making, affect-first cognition, coalition psychology, status competition, threat sensitivity, and moral rationalization. Each provides grounds for further psychological and sociological inquiry. There is strong evidence of a convergence in these pattern recognition exercises as differences among models are shown to reflect varying explanatory lenses rather than substantive disagreement. We review these findings in the light of the evolving literatures of moral psychology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and the computer science literature on large-scale language modeling. We argue that LLMs function as cultural condensates -- compressed representations of how humans describe, justify, and contest their own social lives across trillions of tokens of aggregated communication and narration.
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