There is undoubtedly a real effect here, but IMHO one problem with the original article is that it treats the US as the only reference point.

On the one hand, this reflects the US dominant position in world affairs and the fact that probably most of the training materials come from there.

But on the other hand, there are some outlier results that are left unexplained. For example, ChatGPT is even more aligned with Japan than with the US.

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coherentpony 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> For example, ChatGPT is even more aligned with Japan than with the US

I have no expertise in this field.

Is it actually even more aligned? Or is it simply aligned with the elements of Japanese culture and/or media that are exported to the West?

	▲	blargey 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		By the same graph, Japan is rated as more culturally distant from the US than Singapore, Russia, and Zimbabwe.
	▲	cortesoft 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think the comment is basing it on the graphic from the article.

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TimByte 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One possibility is that alignment isn’t just about cultural distance in values, but also about textual representation in the training data