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Personas Are Not People: Identity as State, Not Attribute

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-11-03 in cs.AI. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-11-03 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-11-04

Category: cs.AI · 人工智能 · first seen 2026-11-04

Abstract

Synthetic populations, large sets of simulated people, are increasingly used in place of real people to pretest surveys, simulate users and communities, and evaluate AI systems. Each simulated person is defined by a persona, a written profile of fixed traits, demographics, and attitudes that a language model is instructed to act out. Every such system assumes that a person's identity is a stable a

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