the Personal-Preference and Cultural-Norm Trade

Whose Norms? Disentangling Cultural and Personal Alignment in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.07877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for social decision-making situations that require balancing cultural norms with personal preferences. For example, a user preferring honesty might ask whether to correct a coworker publicly when local norms favor indirect feedback. Yet existing research studies cultural alignment and personalization largely separately.