AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray

Data produced by "silicon samples" vary with researchers' exact choice of models, prompts, and settings, study finds.

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Science
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2025-10-09
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec9020
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Computational and Text Analysis Methods
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray

Cathleen O’Grady
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Science
Computational and Text Analysis Methods
5.34
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray

Cathleen O’Grady
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Abstract

Data produced by "silicon samples" vary with researchers' exact choice of models, prompts, and settings, study finds.

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Computational and Text Analysis Methods
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