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The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots

Research on AI has extensively considered biases related to gender and race. However, much less attention has been dedicated to another sociological tenet: that of class. Inspired by Bourdieu’s work on cultural stratification and distinction, this work sheds light on the sociocultural roots of artificial sociality, and on how these become manifest as ‘habitus’ within the outputs of generative AI models. We conducted 39 interviews with three AI chatbots – ChatGPT, Gemini and Replika – after asking them to imperso…

Lifestyle · P Space — documented harm · certified 2026-07-22 · v1 · article view · machine-readable

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Popular AI chatbots exhibit class-based regularities in how they portray the lifestyle and tastes of fictional personas across different occupations.

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Findings are based on a qualitative study of 39 interviews with three specific chatbots impersonating six occupational types, limiting generalizability beyond those models and personas.

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0482, v1: “The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots.” Truvace, 2026-07-22. /record/TRV-2026-0482 (accessed at citation time). sha256 758041e161eebc6f…

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