"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is it ?

What little research we have of this kind of phenomena points towards this being very valid.

Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus? (https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543)

Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples (https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899)

A bayesian model will use previous data to calculate probabilities, so using AI to calculate a survey based on previous surveys sounds like a logical evolution no?

That's something you might typically do by hand when running a survey and, say, comparing it to a benchmark.

The problems will be similar to most AI problems I suppose: people who don't really understand the limitations of AI or the results it produces take the output of AI as gospel.

My own thought is: what does it mean to 'simulate' a survey if the outcome is that people treat it as a 'live' or 'empirical' one?