Simulating the human mind with a chatbot doesn’t work

not advocating data fraud! technically
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Sources:

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4
“Excited to see our Centaur project out in @Nature.” https://x.com/marcel_binz/status/1940432445041721360
Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

Previously on Pivot to AI:

Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/14/medical-research-ethics-is-hard-but-fake-ai-data-is-easy/
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