Real polling asks real people, unlike synthetic sampling
Synthetic sampling with LLMs produces substantial, often large errors in replicating real polling and demographic proportions, making it unreliable for serious analysis.
Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It's Going About as Well as You'd Expect
AI-generated survey respondents diverge significantly from real people, producing inaccurate political polling especially for underrepresented demographic groups.