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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)

There's been some research in this vain. To answer your question, seemingly very valid.

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These papers suggest that LLMs do something a lot more specific (when asked to simulate a certain political background, they're able to give responses to questions in a way that's consistent with those political backgrounds). That's not particularly surprising to me as I would expect a human to be also able to simulate this kind of thing pretty accurately. I don't think it implies that LLMs would be good at answering typical business survey questions.

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