This is so stupid it is hilarious. I guess the first question to the customer is what they want to know, and the second question is what they want as a result.
Just as useless as product reviews on Amazon.
the nu dark age
AIs are WAY smarter than half the population. This will heavily skew the results.
We achieved human level AI not by making AI better, but by making ourselves dumberp
Smarter in some ways, but in most ways it is just a sycophantic hallucinatory machine.
in very NICHED and modified cases, like with cancer detection , that is not from commercial sources, even then its extremely limited and very reliant on using so many scans to even detect cancer.
Humans barely answer surveys as if they were human, this is some real derivative shit.
Polling has been getting increasingly worse for decades now.
Their accuracy died with the monoculture and no amount of multilevel regression and post-stratification seems to compensate for that
Their accuracy died when people like me became difficult to poll.
I don’t answer phone calls from unknown callers. I delete unsolicited text messages. I throw away irrelevant junk mail without opening it. I automatically delete emails that don’t come from my whitelist of approved senders. I don’t answer the door for door-to-door solicitors.
How are pollsters supposed to find out about the opinions of me and people like me? It’s just impossible. And I don’t think I’m alone – there’s a large and growing portion of the population who are just absolutely impossible to get poll data about.
same its all old people doing it. i made the mistake of answer poll by phone during obama era, it takes like almost 30min to answer all that questioning.
Sounds like something the GOP and O&G industry would do, with all their bots commenting horse dumpings all the time.
Republicans are going to love this
they love AI generated art/porn festishizing POC.
That should be illegal.
Jail the fuckers
Not in Trump’s America.
I mean if someone is paying them to do the poll, then it’s fraud and already illegal
First off, got a chuckle from the bot check…
The story quoted new poll findings by a company called Aaru, representing them as research based on the feedback of American adults. But according to an editor’s note, the piece had to be “updated to note that Aaru is an AI simulation research firm.”
In other words, Axios had failed to disclose that it was citing alleged “polling data” that wasn’t drawn from human respondents at all. Instead, it was dreamed up by a large language model —yet the latest sign of every imaginable industry trying to leverage AI, even when doing so makes absolutely no sense.
This was/is a problem, but giving up on stats because bad stats exist, is like refusing to ever eat food again because someone got you to try a sardine and spinach chocolate cupcake one time.
In fact, the first, last, and most often brought up topic in graduate level statistical analysis isn’t about getting numbers, that’s easy. The hard part is finding the flaws in numbers, even in your own that proves yourself wrong.
The vast majority of people never learn that, or learn that bad stats have been a problem as long as stats has existed. Even making it thru peer review doesn’t always mean anything.
Like, every single time an article links to a study, do the due diligence and click, so what’s going, what the numbers really say, and search who funds them.
It’s not like you’ll even know what to look for at first, but if you never try you’ll never improve.
but giving up on stats because bad stats exist, is like refusing to ever eat food again because someone got you to try a sardine and spinach chocolate cupcake one time.
I won’t die if I give up on stats.
Let me fix your analogy:
but giving up on stats because bad stats exist, is like refusing to ever read newspapers again because you once read a tabloid rag that was full of falsehoods and lies.
And that’s a more reasonable approximation.
I won’t die if I give up on stats.
Society, especially any remaining vestiges of democracy would…
It would mean a population of voters informed solely by propaganda or not at all.
Like, I get what you’re saying.
But youre thinking about a personal level, which the cupcake example was.
Polling/democracy is a societal level, and starving there is the full on death of democracy. And all the assorted damage that comes with that.
I’m sorry I didn’t make that clearer, I thought the personal/societal jump was implied
You really think democracy can’t possibly work without opinion polling?
It would mean a population of voters informed solely by propaganda or not at all.
99% of opinion polling is propaganda. It’s relatively easy to make the outcome of a poll whatever you want it to be, especially when most of your viewers/readers don’t (or can’t) dig into it to find the raw polling data. And even when a poll doesn’t go the way you’d like, you can just bury it or refuse to publish it and run another poll until you get the result you wanted.
99% of opinion polling is propaganda.
I mean, if you invent ones that frequently, yeah, but who cares when people who don’t know about stats make up stats?
That’s literally the point I’m trying to make here,you’re so close to getting it
Every LLM is a fascist propaganda machine
Are we the dumbest species alive or what? ffs
“I should base my surveys about human behavior solely on responses from non-human machines” said… someone, apparently? Damn. 💀
It’s very funny they even bother to do that. Why not just lie from the beginning? Why bother building a bullshit pyramid everyone can smell??
Surveys have always been nonsense. I suppose if you are legitimately trying to find something out then that is one thing, but almost every group doing surveys has an ulterior motive. If the data starts looking bad for them, they just don’t release it or they cherry-pick who they are talking to by how they gather the data. Either way, it is always skewed towards the advantage of whoever is paying the tab.
Yup.
Now just get AI pollsters and AI readers and leave us alone.
