> The greater the cultural distance between a country and the USA, the less accurate ChatGPT got at simulating peoples’ values.

I'd be somewhat concerned that what is actually reflected is a cultures willingness to adopt US (west coast) values over its own. We see this constantly in some European countries where we're willing to adopt US view points and problems over our own. Either because we're constantly exposed the US problems online or because the US problems are simply more "interesting", in the sense that they are more decisive and easier for us to split into right and wrong.

>We see this constantly in some European countries where we're willing to adopt US view points and problems over our own.

'Some', being which countries?