Jul 2026
LLMs struggle to simulate human belief updates in controlled environments
LLMs are increasingly deployed as proxies for human study participants in social science experiments, yet the fidelity of this practice has rarely been tested directly. We test whether six LLMs can simulate individual human belief updates, comparing LLM outputs 1-to-1 against ground truth data from 391 UK participants...
Sebastian Pohl, Harsh Mehta, Pranav Mambayil et al.
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