Metaphors We Compute By: A Computational Audit of Cultural Translation vs. Thinking in LLMs

ArXi:2604.04732v1 Announce Type: cross Large language models (LLMs) are often described as multilingual because they can understand and respond in many languages. However, speaking a language is not the same as reasoning within a culture. This distinction motivates a critical question: do LLMs truly conduct culture-aware reasoning? This paper presents a preliminary computational audit of cultural inclusivity in a creative writing task.