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Emergence of scale-free networks in social interactions among LLMs (arxiv.org)
2 points by anigbrowl on Dec 12, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: AI chat agents chose which others to follow, and their social networks were mapped. They formed realistic networks where a few agents collect most links, like human social media, but biased name tokens sent nearly all links to one or two; renaming fixed this.

Abstract · Emergence of Scale-Free Networks in Social Interactions among Large Language Models

Scale-free networks are one of the most famous examples of emergent behavior and are ubiquitous in social systems, especially online social media in which users can follow each other. By analyzing the interactions of multiple generative agents using GPT3.5-turbo as a language model, we demonstrate their ability to not only mimic individual human linguistic behavior but also exhibit collective phenomena intrinsic to human societies, in particular the emergence of scale-free networks. We discovered that this process is disrupted by a skewed token prior distribution of GPT3.5-turbo, which can lead to networks with extreme centralization as a kind of alignment. We show how renaming agents removes these token priors and allows the model to generate a range of networks from random networks to more realistic scale-free networks.

Giordano De Marzo, Luciano Pietronero, David Garcia
arXiv:2312.06619 · physics.soc-ph, cs.CY · submitted Dec 11, 2023
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