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Bottom line: LLMs are promising diagnostic tools, but they are no substitute for listening to people talk about how they feel about their lives.
🔗 Open access in @PNASNews
“Simulating human well-being with large language models.”
www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
🤖 They reproduce broad patterns (richer, healthier → more satisfied with life)
⚠️ But systematically misestimate well-being
🌍 Especially in countries least represented online
🔎 LLMs rely mostly on linguistic shortcuts, not lived experience
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