2 papers
cs.AI2026
This human study did not involve human subjects: Validating LLM simulations as behavioral evidence
Jessica Hullman, David Broska, Huaman Sun +1
A growing literature uses large language models (LLMs) as synthetic participants to generate cost-effective and nearly instantaneous responses in social science experiments. Howeve…
cs.CL2025
Sociodemographic Prompting is Not Yet an Effective Approach for Simulating Subjective Judgments with LLMs
Huaman Sun, Jiaxin Pei, Minje Choi +1
Human judgments are inherently subjective and are actively affected by personal traits such as gender and ethnicity. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used to simulate…