When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cumulative Changes and Attractors in Iterated Cultural Transmissions

By J'er'emy Perez, Corentin L'eger, Grgur Kovač, Cédric Colas, Gaia Molinaro, Maxime Derex, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Clément Moulin-Frier. 2024

Subfields: Large Language Models, Cognitive Science & Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

Citations in the corpus

• LLM as a Broken Telephone: Iterative Generation Distorts Information (2025, unknown): “Inspired by the work of Perez et al. (2024), who examined the evolution of toxicity, positivity, difficulty, and length in rephrasing as well as in continuation and inspiration-taking chains, we further probe the effects of information distortion in more complex rephrasing chains.”