Thomas Sobieck 🐘Mar 25, 2024

This is the dumbest idea of all time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-replace-human-research-participants-these-scientists-see-risks/

Can AI Replace Human Research Participants? These Scientists See Risks

Several recent proposals for using AI to generate research data could save time and effort but at a cost

Scientific American
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@Sobieck

Oh, FFS! Once more for the tech-bros ... "human-seeming" is NOT human! No researcher I've ever met is going to accept LLM-generated responses as representative of human responses.

Mar 25, 2024 at 1:48amWeb
Show threadThomas Sobieck 🐘Mar 25, 2024
@PeterLG I think it speaks to the misaligned incentives in research if anyone is actually thinking about doing this. It might get a paper published, but it is going to tell you exactly nothing about reality.
Show threadPeterMar 25, 2024

@Sobieck

Yes, I'm really hoping it is a "possibilities" paper, rather than a "probabilities" one.