The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow

[intaglio_dragon@furry.engineer]

@hannah Perhaps I'm just missing something obvious here, but...isn't the whole point of conducting surveys to gather data from people? If the only entities being surveyed are A.I. agents that mimic human speech and which could be programmed to say anything, how is it meaningful?

It seems as meaningful to me as "Our survey data says 95% of people approve our product. We surveyed 1000 people whom we paid $100 each to say positive things about us."

[ingalovinde@embracing.space]

@hannah next up: instead of spending budget money on organizing elections, we'll just run 400 millions of AI agents, give them personas representing the US demographic, and ask them who would they vote for.

[going_to_maine@mastodon.social]

@hannah "tantalizing" ain't the word.

[wollman@mastodon.social]

@hannah Sounds like someone read about the bootstrap without actually understanding why it works.

[kittenflare@transfem.social]

@hannah@posts.rat.pictures what the actual fucking fuck? So you "simulate" a poll and it generates whatever bullshit outcome you ask for

[lfzz@mastodon.social]

@hannah That's a lot of words ot say: we gonna make shit up

[blp@framapiaf.org]

@hannah "Four out of five LLMs recommend Trident sugarless gum."

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@unlofl @hannah better yet, ask bob, and duplicate his answer sample_size times!

[kaisla@eliitin-some.fi]

@hannah Lol, I often quote the brilliant idea that using these generative machines is like using a forklift to lift weights at the gym. But here they are actually doing it

”We discovered a way to save 100% of the sciences and research costs: we will simply not do any of it!”

[funkula@goblin.camp]

@Intaglio_Dragon @hannah I wanna hang out with the people who took the hundred dollars and were still like "fuck you, your product sucks"