AI Basins Collapse Diversity

Large language models can infer a user’s personality and, combined with prior prompts and chat history, steer them into stable 'basins of attraction'—preferred ideas and styles the model reinforces over time. Scaled across millions, this can reduce intellectual diversity and narrow the range of opinions in circulation. — If AI funnels thought into uniform tracks, it threatens pluralism and democratic debate by shrinking the marketplace of ideas.