Axios used AI to fake an opinion poll

https://lemmy.world/post/45276304

Silicon sampling, has to be dumbest thing I’ve heard of in a while.
Right, like, … I can imagine how some of the fools who tend to find themselves in executive positions could be fooled into thinking this was a sensible cost-saving measure… But anyone who’s capable of an ounce of reasoning, or who has any basic understanding of generative AI or statistics, shouldn’t need more than a few seconds to realize why this could not ever provide output that would reliably emulate a survey of actual humans.