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We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn’t work (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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not advocating data fraud! technically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlW-jTjhGXo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250917-we-simulated-the-human-mind-with-a-chatbot-it-didnt-work - podcast

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

The purpose of artificial intelligence is to lie and deceive, so seeing it used to make "synthetic data" is infuriating, but not shocking.

You or I might think that claiming a chatbot model simulates human psychology was obviously a weird and foolish claim. So we have a response paper: “Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology.” [arXiv, PDF]

That this has to be said at all pisses me off, but its at least nice to see there's some pushback against the knowledge destruction machine.