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The case against AI-generated users - IDEO
This IDEO essay discusses concerns about AI-generated users and suggests alternatives for design research.
About The case against AI-generated users - IDEO
This 9-minute essay published January 30, 2025 argues AI-generated users cannot replace research with real people. Drawing on a rural healthcare project, it describes three weeks spent interviewing ChatGPT-created patients and practitioners, followed by a one-hour conversation with a real patient and a physician serving marginalized rural communities that proved more revealing.
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- Contrasts participant-led tangents, unexpected insights and home or workplace context with LLM behavior
- Describes friend and family interviews and diary studies for tight budgets
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- Oct 23, 2026 · Official source
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- Oct 5, 2026
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It reports asking ChatGPT about the ethics, which answered that users provide qualitative feedback, emotions and insights synthetic users cannot replicate, and overuse might miss important human factors in design.
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