Accuracy Is the New Battleground in the AI Bias Debate

The cross-cultural audit of individualism-collectivism bias in LLMs ^[1] is technically narrow — it measures a specific dimension of cultural value expression — but the institutional implication is broad. If models trained on large corpora reliably reproduce the value distributions present in that data, then a lab's decision to tune those distributions out is itself a value decision, not a technical correction. The user who observed that Grok's post-"lobotomy" degradation tracked with attempts to override its training was articulating the same logic from the product end: the model got…