Yet more evidence for the towering heap of proof that synthetic users are bullshit.
As with all AI products, they do not improve "productivity" for a task but create an excuse not to do the task. In this case, the task is research. AI participants do not help you do research, but to AVOID research.
@aedwardslevy.bsky.socialThere is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear"
www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
