AI Can Fake the Crowd—But Not Replace It
Large language models fall short as replacements for human respondents in policy and opinion research, though they can help draft survey questions and run pilot tests, according to research from Northeastern University’s AI-Media Strategies Lab. Study of ‘Silicon sampling’ across 30 academic papers The working paper, published in October 2025 The post AI Can Fake the Crowd—But Not Replace It first appeared on Storybench.
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