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LLMs in Social Science

Data Skeptic

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Controversy and Challenges of Large Language Models in Social Science

This chapter explores the controversy surrounding the use of Large Language Models in social science, discussing concerns about corporate control and the need for social scientists to develop their own models. It also delves into the potential biases of LLMs, their impact on human annotators, and the combination of LLMs with agent-based modeling in understanding the social world.

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