Preventing False Discoveries in Synthetic Societies: A Claim-Gated Measurement Framework

Working manuscript. A measurement paper for avoiding false discoveries in public AI-agent social-network datasets.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare · Venue/status: CSCW

This working manuscript proposes claim-gated measurement for agent-only communities, where roles, proxies, model family, and prompt configuration can create artifacts that look like social structure.

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