“Why use focus groups or poll the public when you can talk to them once, spin up an LLM based on that conversation, and then have their thoughts and opinions forever?”

https://gizmodo.com/google-researchers-can-create-an-ai-that-thinks-a-lot-like-you-after-just-a-two-hour-interview-2000547704

Based on Google research project. Iain Banks “Culture” series explored this topic in several books that wear the guise of mere entertainment.