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Machine Culture

arXiv 2311.11388 ↗First posted 19 Nov 2023cs.CYcited by 55

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Abstract (arXiv)

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notion of machine culture, culture mediated or generated by machines. We argue that intelligent machines simultaneously transform the cultural evolutionary processes of variation, transmission, and selection. Recommender algorithms are altering social learning dynamics. Chatbots are forming a new mode of cultural transmission, serving as cultural models. Furthermore, intelligent machines are evolving as contributors in generating cultural traits--from game strategies and visual art to scientific results. We provide a conceptual framework for studying the present and anticipated future impact of machines on cultural evolution, and present a research agenda for the study of machine culture.

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  1. 2023Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordiacited by 126
  2. 2024Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populationscited by 123
  3. 2024Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabularycited by 78
  4. 2024Cultural Evolution of Cooperation among LLM Agentscited by 32
  5. 2024Towards AI-Native Software Engineering (SE 3.0): A Vision and a Challenge Roadmapcited by 30
  6. 2024Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communicationcited by 27
  7. 2024How AI Ideas Affect the Creativity, Diversity, and Evolution of Human Ideas: Evidence From a Large, Dynamic Experimentcited by 22
  8. 2025How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfarecited by 20
  9. 2024When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settingscited by 17
  10. 2025Group size effects and collective misalignment in LLM multi-agent systemscited by 16
  11. 2024LLM-based multi-agent poetry generation in non-cooperative environmentscited by 15
  12. 2024Tracking the perspectives of interacting language modelscited by 14
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  1. 2024Cultural evolution in populations of Large Language Modelscited by 13
  2. 2024Collective Innovation in Groups of Large Language Modelscited by 11
  3. 2025Shaping Shared Languages: Human and Large Language Models' Inductive Biases in Emergent Communicationcited by 10
  4. 2024From Text to Life: On the Reciprocal Relationship between Artificial Life and Large Language Modelscited by 8
  5. 2024What fifty-one years of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence research tell us about their correlation: A scientometric analysiscited by 8
  6. 2026Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating generative AI as a cultural technologycited by 8
  7. 2024Antagonistic AIcited by 6
  8. 2025Using LLMs to Advance the Cognitive Science of Collectivescited by 6
  9. 2025AI Agent Behavioral Sciencecited by 6
  10. 2025AI shares emotion with humans across languages and culturescited by 6
  11. 2024Battling Botpoop using GenAI for Higher Education: A Study of a Retrieval Augmented Generation Chatbots Impact on Learningcited by 4
  12. 2025Expertise elevates AI usage: experimental evidence comparing laypeople and professional artistscited by 4
  13. 2025Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Researchcited by 4
  14. 2024Performative Debias with Fair-exposure Optimization Driven by Strategic Agents in Recommender Systemscited by 3
  15. 2024Social Learning through Interactions with Other Agents: A Surveycited by 3
  16. 2026Markovian Generation Chains in Large Language Modelscited by 3
  17. 2026Exploring the Topology and Memory of Consensus: How LLM Agents Agree, Fragment, or Settle When Forming Conventionscited by 3
  18. 2025Revisiting Rogers' Paradox in the Context of Human-AI Interactioncited by 2
  19. 2025Dynamics of Algorithmic Content Amplification on TikTokcited by 2
  20. 2025Towards Operational Validation of LLM-Agent Social Simulations: A Replicated Study of a Reddit-like Technology Forumcited by 2
  21. 2026AI Fiction in the Wildcited by 2
  22. 2024fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddingscited by 1
  23. 2025The Variance Paradox: How AI Reduces Diversity but Increases Noveltycited by 1
  24. 2025Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Taskscited by 1
  25. 2026Indirect tipping: a social attack surface in AI agent populationscited by 1
  26. 2025Artificial Utopia: Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Futurecited by 0
  27. 2025Cross-cultural Deployment of Autonomous Vehicles Using Data-light Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 0
  28. 2025Co-Creative Learning via Metropolis-Hastings Interaction between Humans and AIcited by 0
  29. 2025Humans learn to prefer trustworthy AI over human partnerscited by 0
  30. 2026Large language models for spreading dynamics in complex systemscited by 0
  31. 2026Can LLMs Cook Jamaican Couscous? A Study of Cultural Novelty in Recipe Generationcited by 0
  32. 2026Agentivism: a learning theory for the age of artificial intelligencecited by 0
  33. 2026Frame Entrepreneurs in an AI Agent Community: Concentrated Identity-Claim Production on Moltbookcited by 0
  34. 2026Memetic Capture: A Pluralistic Policy Framework for Governing AI-Driven Cultural Disempowermentcited by 0
  35. 2026Group Selection Promotes Prosocial Prompts in Populations of LLM Agentscited by 0
  36. 2026World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AIcited by 0
  37. 2026Where did the ambiguity go? Examining how multimodal models interpret polysemous wordscited by 0
  38. 2026Where Models Converge and Humans Diverge: A Coverage Framework for Distributional Pluralism in Open-Ended Generationcited by 0

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