@Natasha_Jay I can see a few papers (that considered "silicon sampling") at least, not that a paper involving LLMs is an automatic indication of good quality these days.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mar.21982

The combination of LLMs and statistical sampling sounds insane. Statistical sampling is already hard enough with real people, and some how inserting a LLM in there (which effectively adds a lot more distance from actual humans) is going to make things better? It'll generate crap cheaply, for a very particular definition of cheaply that ignores externalities.