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  "id": 17353,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06085v1",
  "title": "Signal or Spurious Cue? A Randomized Audit of Survey-Country Metadata in LLM Social Inference",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Yifan Lyu, Xinran Li, Jiaqi Qiao, Xiujuan Xu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T14:27:46.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-ai",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17353",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06085v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}