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pith:2025:D4YRKDJZLKQVSQUYAXTJA2V3YT

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Randomness, Not Representation: The Unreliability of Evaluating Cultural Alignment in LLMs

Ariba Khan, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Stephen Casper

arxiv:2503.08688 v2 · 2025-03-11 · cs.CY

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:46:23.093784Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

1f31150d395aa159429805e6906abbc4ebd22519cd7f0a5fdbeb8631b9b211f0

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arxiv: 2503.08688 · arxiv_version: 2503.08688v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.08688 · pith_short_12: D4YRKDJZLKQV · pith_short_16: D4YRKDJZLKQVSQUY · pith_short_8: D4YRKDJZ

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D4YRKDJZLKQVSQUYAXTJA2V3YT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1f31150d395aa159429805e6906abbc4ebd22519cd7f0a5fdbeb8631b9b211f0

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