Not-quite-human tastes: the stylized omnivorousness of LLM survey surrogates
This study evaluates the ability of large-language models to approximate human cultural tastes by generating silicon surrogates from the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Using models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, the authors analyze 277,470 synthetic respondents to determine if LLMs can faithfully replicate real-world survey data.