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econ.GN2023★ 48 cited
Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What Can We Learn from Homo Silicus?
John J. Horton, Apostolos Filippas, Benjamin S. Manning
We argue that newly-developed large language models (LLMs), because of how they are trained and designed, are implicit computational models of humans -- a Homo silicus. LLMs can be…
econ.GN2021
The Production and Consumption of Social Media
Apostolos Filippas, John Horton
We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content. Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer con…