Synthetic Participants Do Not Work (Systematic Literature Review of 182 Research Papers)
A new preprint of a literature review was just published.
Based on the article (covering the preprint), synthetic participants generated by LLMs fundamentally do not work as replacement for human participants. While LLMs can generate text that looks like participant data, they fail to replicate actual human cognition, emotion, or lived experience.
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