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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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Synthetic Personalities: How Well Can LLMs Mimic Individual Respondents Using Socio-Economic Microdata?

Researchers demonstrate that large language models can effectively create detailed digital twins of individual consumers using existing socio-economic panel data, achieving 78.8% accuracy on held-out questions. The study maps construction decisions across model types, information depths, and embedding methods, showing that market research scalability is now limited by data volume and model selection rather than data collection design.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models: Characterization and Alignment with Socio-Psychological Value Frameworks

Researchers investigate how Large Language Models generate culturally-grounded personas and whether these synthetic identities accurately reflect real-world value systems across different cultures. By mapping LLM-generated personas against established frameworks like the World Values Survey and Moral Foundations Theory, the study reveals how AI models interpret and reproduce cultural and moral variation.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 276/10

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Persona Generators: Generating Diverse Synthetic Personas for Arbitrary Contexts

Researchers introduce Persona Generators, AI functions that create diverse synthetic populations for evaluating AI systems across varied user demographics without needing extensive real-world data collection. Using iterative optimization with large language models, the approach generates lightweight code that produces synthetic personas spanning rare trait combinations and long-tail behaviors, outperforming existing baselines on diversity metrics.