Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggesting that LLMs could be used to replace human labor in social science research -- or even human subjects. Why these writings are essentially calls to fabricate data.
References:
PNAS: ChatGPT outperforms crowd workers for text-annotation tasks
Beware the Hype: ChatGPT Didn't Replace Human Data AnnotatorsChatGPT Can Replace the Underpaid Workers Who Train AI, Researchers SayPolitical Analysis: Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples
Behavioral Research Methods: Can large language models help augment English psycholinguistic datasets?
Information Systems Journal: Editorial: The ethics of using generative AI for qualitative data analysis
Fresh AI Hell:
Advertising vs. reality, synthetic Willy Wonka edition
https://x.com/AlsikkanTV/status/1762235022851948668?s=20https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1762739767471714379https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1762891492476006491?t=bNQ1AQlju36tQYxnm8BPVQ&s=19A news outlet used an LLM to generate a story...and it falsely quoted Emily
AI Invents Quote From Real Person in Article by Bihar News Site: A Wake-Up Call?Trump supporters target Black voters with faked AI images
Seeking Reliable Election Information? Don’t Trust AI
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Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.