Ambiguity Collapse by LLMs

Affiliate Shira Gur-Arieh and coauthors coin "ambiguity collapse," a phenomenon that arises when LLMs collapses polysemous terms into singular, flattened meanings. The authors write: "Ambiguity performs crucial work across domains — from art and education to law and democratic life — by sustaining social friction, richness, plurality and normativity. As LLMs become embedded in interpretive pipelines, a central risk is that they replace this productive openness with decisive, singular resolutions." Read more from SSRN.