LLMs are losing the ability to simulate real people.

· Bits and Bobs 8/25/25
  • LLMs are losing the ability to simulate real people.
    • LLMs are largely a warped mirror of all of the human input.
    • It used to be possible to use LLMs as a kind of proxy for swarms of humans to see how people would respond to given things like surveys.
    • But as we've trained them more for reasoning, they've lost the ability to handle nuanced situated human perspectives.
    • The distributions are getting sharper and sharper.

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