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Surveys the easy way: fake your data with an AI chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmqnrX6zsc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250820-surveys-the-easy-way-fake-your-data-with-an-ai-chatbot - podcast

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What happened to good old dice?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

LLMs are designed to make plausible-looking text, so whatever bullshit statistics they extrude will be more convincing to the untrained eye.

[+] eRac@lemmings.world -10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Dice are more random, too random for believable results. The nice thing with an LLM is that it knows the real-world probability of every answer to a question, or can make a realistic inference of what that probability will be.

It won't give actual feedback about your thing, but it will give feedback that appears real.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 points 5 days ago

LLMs don't 'know' anything. They are a million dice rolled at once and run through an equation that turns them into the appearance of knowledge. The d20 does not know the numbers one through twenty. It only displays an element of itself to you in a way that lets you perceive the number.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

It’s all true, I made millions of dollars by using ChatGPT to place bets on the ponies. I started with billions

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Well, that's an infantile grasp of LLMs, innit.