Since the title is click bait, here's the answer from the abstract:
Our findings indicate that DeepSeek-V3 performs best in simulating U.S. opinions on the abortion issue compared to other topics such as climate change, gun control, immigration, and services for same-sex couples, primarily because it more accurately simulates responses when provided with Democratic or liberal personas
For Chinese samples, DeepSeek-V3 performs best in simulating opinions on foreign aid and individualism but shows limitations in modeling views on capitalism, particularly failing to capture the stances of low-income and non-college-educated individuals
I work at a public opinion data archive and we wind up talking with a lot of people who are interested in simulating public opinion with LLMs. Now I'm not an expert on public opinion, I'm only an expert on the best web site for searching public opinion data, but I think it's crazy.
Since the title is click bait, here's the answer from the abstract:
No.
Well. Is it? Clickbait.
I work at a public opinion data archive and we wind up talking with a lot of people who are interested in simulating public opinion with LLMs. Now I'm not an expert on public opinion, I'm only an expert on the best web site for searching public opinion data, but I think it's crazy.
Betteridge has a law about this, methinks.