As if the institution of political polling were not already fraught enough, pollsters are now surveying AI instead of real people to cut costs and save time. As research demonstrates, AI is clearly not up to the job — but that probably won't stop any firms who've bought in to continue doing so. In a new white paper about the topic for the survey platform Verasight, data journalist G. Elliott Morris found, when comparing 1,500 "synthetic" survey respondents and 1,500 real people, that arge language models (LLMs) were overall very bad at replicating actual human respondents. Using six OpenAI models […]

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