Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
Also, see the history of the parent toot for the OG post from blusky. They don’t preview well here, so I decided to copy it instead.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe Good grief. “So here’s the poll by AI-invented people.”
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@octothorpe Good grief. “So here’s the poll by AI-invented people.”
@CStamp Their data was always a bit questionable, but popular (ahem). Now they’re exploring ‘what if we just totally made shit up?’
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe
That is the dumbest idea I've heard all week, and there have been some real clangers of late -
@octothorpe
That is the dumbest idea I've heard all week, and there have been some real clangers of late@mloxton it is indeed! Even dumber than acid wash jeans.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
Next, AI voters replace unpredictable human citizens.
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@CStamp Their data was always a bit questionable, but popular (ahem). Now they’re exploring ‘what if we just totally made shit up?’
@octothorpe I knew there was a reason to not trust polls.

Honestly, their only benefit is when used to study markets to figure out how to tweak marketing or services.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
A bunch of magic 8 balls would be even cheaper
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A bunch of magic 8 balls would be even cheaper
@gbargoud outlook not so good!
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@gbargoud outlook not so good!
I guess the downside to magic 8 balls is that the answers would actually be random and you can't really seed them to say what you want them to like you can with AI agents
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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I guess the downside to magic 8 balls is that the answers would actually be random and you can't really seed them to say what you want them to like you can with AI agents
@gbargoud I mean, you keep shaking until you get the result you want. Not unlike Gallup’s existing methodology, really.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe jumping Jackrabbits, that sounds stupid.
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@octothorpe jumping Jackrabbits, that sounds stupid.
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@weyoun6 yeah, their methodologies can be roughly described as ‘numberwang’.
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe hahahaha.... Wait, they're serious?! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe
Why not just go completely fraudulent and have the ratings based on how much the politicians are willing to pay?
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
@octothorpe @JonChevreau This is bad. No matter what we think of AI slop, actual human driven chaos is worse. That is why there is not modeling it…
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Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let along survey data:
February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers
Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses
Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.
Gallup.com (news.gallup.com)
"Due to cost reasons" has gotta be a forward-looking statement translating as "we're afraid to be sued or regulated out of business by you-know-who" if we publish polls about you-know-who.
