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Exploring the Impact of Language Switching on Personality Traits in LLMs
Jacopo Amidei, Jose Gregorio Ferreira De Sá, Rubén Nieto Luna, Andreas Kaltenbrunner
Abstract
This paper investigates the extent to which LLMs align with humans when personality shifts are associated with language changes. Based on three experiments, that focus on GPT-4o and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQR-A), our initial results reveal a weak yet significant variation in GPT-4o’s personality across languages, indicating that some stem from a language-switching effect rather than translation. Further analysis across five English-speaking countries shows that GPT-4o, leveraging stereotypes, reflects distinct country-specific personality traits.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{amidei-etal-2025-exploring,
title = "Exploring the Impact of Language Switching on Personality Traits in {LLM}s",
author = "Amidei, Jacopo and
Ferreira De S{\'a}, Jose Gregorio and
Luna, Rub{\'e}n Nieto and
Kaltenbrunner, Andreas",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.162/",
pages = "2370--2378"
}