The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow
@hannah obviously the model needs to be trained on a sample of typical responses from the specific population(s) to be surveyed.
... so, thats it, AI something something magically gets more precision out of the same dataset, by adding simulated data? They're saying the simulated responses are more accurate than the real responses???
@hannah Wait, I've got a better idea that will still cut their polling costs in half: we survey people but with half the standard sample size, then we run it all through a photo copier and tabulate the results. We'll get the normal sample size and accuracy!
Also, copy machines use a lot less power than AI, its win-win!