Survey researchers: I'll discuss LLM "synthetic respondents" in a free webinar this week.
➡️ Synthetic Survey Data? It's Not Data
Thursday Feb 19, 12pm Eastern, hosted by Sawtooth
Free registration: sawtoothsoftware.com/resources/ev...
(P.S., I give no quarter on this topic 😆)
Not all examples are straightforwardly applicable to the social media context, but many are.
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Compare this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Car...
To the AI equivalent: futureoflife.org/ai-safety-in...
Pick your favorite and we could discuss. Several reasonable, concrete comparisons to choose from: required crash test is red teaming, speed governors are kill switches, etc.
There are no shortage of concrete, realistic proposals drawn from industries that are already regulated: e.g., safety mechanisms (cars), marketing limitations (drugs), identity verification (finance), etc. Each proposal has benefits and drawbacks. We need to determine the acceptable balance.
29.12.2025 00:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Your comparison is strange, when the text generation machine can produce orders of magnitude more words in the same amount of time it takes a human to write 500 words on paper. Surely relative ease of production changes the calculus on the relative impact?
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