On September 29-30, the ARF and MSI co-produced the inaugural ANALYTICS & FORECASTING conference, exploring the evolving role of modeling in market research and forecasting, with a particular focus on the opportunities and limitations of synthetic data. Attendees engaged in critical discussions about the opportunities and limitations of modeling in market research applications and heard practical strategies and solutions from leading researchers and practitioners.
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This experiment, part of the ARF’s “Psychology of Gen AI” series, reveals how models like ChatGPT not only replicate human cognitive biases, such as loss aversion, but also compress variability into uniform patterns. This raises concerns for advertising researchers who rely on authentic insights into consumer behavior.
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