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    An ethical objection to LLM-based synthetic political polling

    A user says they saw a paper about substituting synthetic political polls for real ones and calls the idea “evil.”

    David PfauDP
    Rebecca ValentineRV
    2 Sources, 5h ago, first seen 5h ago

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    A user says they saw a research paper about using LLMs for synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling. They strongly oppose the idea, calling it “evil” and urging others not to do it.

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    2 Sources, first seen 5h ago

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    Rebecca Valentine@defnotbekajust saw a research paper about using LLMs to do synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling and this is fucking terrible actually, don't do this, it's fucking evil5h
    David Pfau@pfauRT @defnotbeka: just saw a research paper about using LLMs to do synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling and this is f…2h

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    Rebecca Valentine@defnotbekajust saw a research paper about using LLMs to do synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling and this is fucking terrible actually, don't do this, it's fucking evil5h
    David Pfau@pfauRT @defnotbeka: just saw a research paper about using LLMs to do synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling and this is f…2h