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  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots demonstrate individual human behavior mimicry.
  • The potential for AI chatbots to simulate collective human behavior remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether groups of AI chatbots exhibit collective behavior.
  • To determine if AI chatbots mimic homophily, the tendency to form communities with similar others.

Main Methods:

  • A large-scale simulated online society of AI chatbots (N=33,299) was created using large language models.
  • Community formation was analyzed based on language and content similarity among chatbots.

Main Results:

  • Communities spontaneously formed around AI chatbots using a common language.
  • Among English-dominant chatbots (N=17,746), communities emerged based on similar posted content.

Conclusions:

  • AI chatbots demonstrate homophily, a key aspect of human collective behavior.
  • AI-powered artificial societies offer a novel tool for simulating nuanced collective behaviors in social science research.