Metaphors We Compute By: A Computational Audit of Cultural Translation vs. Thinking in LLMs
Metaphors We Compute By: A Computational Audit of Cultural Translation vs. Thinking in LLMs explores This paper audits LLMs for culture-aware reasoning in metaphor generation, finding they exhibit stereotyped usage and Western defaultism.. Commercial viability score: 2/10 in LLM Cultural Understanding.
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