ChatGPT can generate personality tests and predict people’s responses before they take them
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Publishing August 6th in the Cell Press journal iScience, scientists outline how they developed a method for generating personality assessment questionnaires with ChatGPT from any source text. To test the method, they applied it to both the DSM-5 and, as a deliberately unconventional example, an astrology textbook. Not only could ChatGPT be used to create and validate these questionnaires, but it could also accurately predict population-level responses before the surveys were administered.
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