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No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"
No Real People Were Polled: AI Is Now Fabricating What "The Public Thinks"
The other day Axios ran a piece that cited "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. Turns out, those "findings" were completely fabricated by a company called Aaru - using AI (causing Axios to issue an editor's note and 'clarification')Aaru uses something they call "silicon sampling," where large language models (the AI) can emulate humans at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling, the NY Times reports.
Silicon sampling isn’t polling. It is the outright fabrication of public opinion by...
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