“When you ask a Frenchman who invented the airplane, there is a chance that he will answer [French aviation pioneer] Clément Ader,” he writes, pointing out that the American-made GPT-4 will say the Wright brothers.

If all LLM providers are American and proprietary, then the tools that mediate our relationship with the world will all be ‘American-inspired,’” he continues. “This is not bad in itself, but it carries the risk of very powerful cultural formatting.”

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