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Signal or Spurious Cue? A Randomized Audit of Survey-Country Metadata in LLM Social Inference

Survey-country metadata can improve an LLM's forecast of an individual response when informative, yet the same cue may redirect the forecast when assigned at random. A within-record audit tests whether disclosing a random label's uniform, record-independent origin reduces its country-directed uptake, and whether verified survey country lowers held-out Brier loss. Independent population anchors and recorded human answers measure direction and consequence across five fixed API models, six countrie

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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Transparency
Retrieved: 7 August 2026

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ethics.ai (6 August 2026), “Signal or Spurious Cue? A Randomized Audit of Survey-Country Metadata in LLM Social Inference,” evidence record 17353, https://ethics.ai/record/17353 (originally published by arXiv cs.AI).

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