As far as I understand this, they seem to think that AI models trained on a set of affluent westerners with unknown biases can be told to “act like [demographic] and answer these questions.”
It sounds completely bonkers not only from a moral perspective, but scientifically and statistically this is basically just making up data and hoping everyone is impressed by how complicated the data faking is to care.
Holy replication crises!
Starting to suspect that a bunch of systems which are already very distorted & distorting are going to be so damaged in the coming few years, that it’ll collapse the rails under this accelerating helter-skelter entirely, and force a massive restructuring according to sane & rigorous principles.