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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models

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This paper cites Homogenization Effects of Large Language Models on Human Creative Ideation.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Homogenization Effects of Large Language Models on Human Creative Ideation

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This paper cites Commitments on model deprecation and preservation.https://www.anthropic.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Commitments on model deprecation and preservation.https://www.anthropic

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Battig and William E

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This paper cites The AI values dashboard.https://values.safe.ai, 2025.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models The AI values dashboard.https://values.safe.ai, 2025

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This paper cites How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models How is ChatGPT's behavior changing over time?

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This paper cites DeepSeek-V3-0324 release.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models DeepSeek-V3-0324 release

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Observation ea9e9b01-b0d0-423d-95a0-eeb456f6ac99 · outbound

This paper cites Generative artificial intelligence enhances creativity but reduces the diversity of novel content.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Generative artificial intelligence enhances creativity but reduces the diversity of novel content

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This paper cites AI generates well-liked but templatic empathic responses.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models AI generates well-liked but templatic empathic responses

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This paper cites The curious decline of linguistic diversity: Training language models on synthetic text.Findings of NAACL,.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models The curious decline of linguistic diversity: Training language models on synthetic text.Findings of NAACL,

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This paper cites KL-regularized reinforcement learning is designed to mode collapse.arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20817, 2025.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models KL-regularized reinforcement learning is designed to mode collapse.arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20817, 2025

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This paper cites Mysteries of mode collapse.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Mysteries of mode collapse

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This paper cites Artificial Hivemind: The open-ended homogeneity of language models (and beyond).Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Artificial Hivemind: The open-ended homogeneity of language models (and beyond).Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

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This paper cites Where does output diversity collapse in post-training?.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Where does output diversity collapse in post-training?

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This paper cites Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Understanding the Effects of RLHF on LLM Generalisation and Diversity

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This paper cites please, don’t kill the only model that still feels human.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models please, don’t kill the only model that still feels human

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This paper cites A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models A Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Conversation Models

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This paper cites Jointly Reinforcing Diversity and Quality in Language Model Generations.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Jointly Reinforcing Diversity and Quality in Language Model Generations

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Observation 5ec4d32c-2dd7-47b2-b215-17470dc4161d · outbound

This paper cites Holistic Evaluation of Language Models.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

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This paper cites The alignment tax: Response homogenization in aligned LLMs and its implica- tions for uncertainty estimation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.24124, 2026.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models The alignment tax: Response homogenization in aligned LLMs and its implica- tions for uncertainty estimation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.24124, 2026

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This paper cites Does Writing with Language Models Reduce Content Diversity?.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Does Writing with Language Models Reduce Content Diversity?

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This paper cites Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect?.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect?

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget

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This paper cites The Good, The Bad, and The Greedy: Evaluation of LLMs Should Not Ignore Non-Determinism.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models The Good, The Bad, and The Greedy: Evaluation of LLMs Should Not Ignore Non-Determinism

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models rspeer/wordfreq: v3.0, 2022

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Evaluating the Evaluation of Diversity in Natural Language Generation

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Van Overschelde, Katherine A

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This paper cites We're Different, We're the Same: Creative Homogeneity Across LLMs.

The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models We're Different, We're the Same: Creative Homogeneity Across LLMs

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Epistemic diversity and knowledge collapse in large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04226, 2025

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models Forcing Diffuse Distributions out of Language Models

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models NoveltyBench: Evaluating Language Models for Humanlike Diversity

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild

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The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models LMSYS-Chat-1M: A Large-Scale Real-World LLM Conversation Dataset

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Structured Output Collapses Answer Diversity Across 44 Language Models cites this paper.

Structured Output Collapses Answer Diversity Across 44 Language Models The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models

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Tag Questions and the Generational Reversal of Sycophancy Across 45 Language Models The One-Word Census: Answer-Choice Conformity Across 44 Language Models

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