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Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Exploring the Use of Language Models in Social Science Research

The chapter delves into the potential use of language models as proxies for specific human subpopulations in social science research. It discusses the biases and conditioning of models on socio-demographic data to emulate responses from diverse human groups. Critiques are given on studies involving GPT-3, highlighting biases and methodologies used to understand perceptions and generate text.

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