Experts warn ChatGPT isn't just predicting words anymore — It's now predicting human thoughts

• GPT-4 predicted personality scores months before any human ever answered a question
• A Bosch oven manual was enough for GPT-4 to invent personality traits
• DSM-5 predictions hit 0.71 accuracy; astrology predictions somehow hit 0.85 accuracy

Human personality has traditionally been measured by asking people questions and comparing their answers across established psychological frameworks.

A new study published on iScience suggests GPT-4 can go further by estimating how people collectively respond to personality questions before answering begins.

Researchers Rotem Monsa, Aviv Zohar, and Shahar Arzy of the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School tested whether the model could infer patterns in human responses from language alone, rather than merely generating plausible questionnaire wording.

GPT-4 predicted responses before humans answered

The team used GPT-4 to create personality questionnaires from two very different textual sources.

One questionnaire drew on the DSM-5, the standard clinical manual used worldwide by psychiatrists to diagnose personality disorders...

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