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The Politeness Paradox: Why LLMs Fail at Persian Taarof and How Researchers Are Closing the Cultural Gap

The Politeness Paradox: Why LLMs Fail at Persian Taarof and How Researchers Are Closing the Cultural Gap

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New research exposes critical flaws in large language models' ability to navigate Persian taarof—a complex system of ritual politeness—with accuracy rates 40-48% below native speakers. The study introduces TaarofBench, the first cultural benchmark for Iranian social norms, and demonstrates how fine-tuning can boost alignment by up to 42%, revealing the limitations of Western-centric AI training.
Latam-GPT: Latin America Builds Its Own Open-Source AI to Capture Cultural Identity

Latam-GPT: Latin America Builds Its Own Open-Source AI to Capture Cultural Identity

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Chile's CENIA leads a pan-regional effort to develop Latam-GPT—a 50-billion-parameter open-source LLM trained on Latin American languages and contexts. With unique cultural datasets and a $10M supercomputing backbone, this collaborative project aims to achieve technological sovereignty while outperforming global models on regional knowledge.