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Did the ECHO paper have people rate LLM-generated role-play answers against a real person, how many raters and items, what were the results, and were its LLM judges checked against the humans?

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ECHO (arXiv 2404.13957v1, 22 Apr 2024) does include a human evaluation of LLM-generated text: acquaintances of ten real volunteers (at least seven each) saw ten pairs of answers, one from the real person and one from a role-playing LLM, and picked the human one. The headline metric is how often the LLM answer was chosen (50% is chance). Overall rates ran 37.5 to 48.2 across methods, with GPTs closest to chance. The targets are ordinary living people, not fictional characters, and the task is human-versus-machine, not which character said a line, so S52's negative narrows rather than falls. No agreement statistic was found, and LLM judges were scored against ground truth, not validated against the human raters; they picked the LLM answer as the human one above 90% for the two GPT-4 judges.

ECHO (arXiv 2404.13957v1, 22 Apr 2024) does include a human evaluation of LLM-generated text: acquaintances of ten real volunteers (at least seven each) saw ten pairs of answers, one from the real person and one from a role-playing LLM, and picked the human one. The headline metric is how often the LLM answer was chosen (50% is chance). Overall rates ran 37.5 to 48.2 across methods, with GPTs closest to chance. The targets are ordinary living people, not fictional characters, and the task is human-versus-machine, not which character said a line, so S52's negative narrows rather than falls. No agreement statistic was found, and LLM judges were scored against ground truth, not validated against the human raters; they picked the LLM answer as the human one above 90% for the two GPT-4 judges. Curator qualifications: ECHO v1: acquaintances of ten real volunteers chose between a real and an LLM answer; LLM chosen 37.5-48.2% by method (50% chance). Tests imitation of real people, not fictional voice; internal number mismatches (48.3 vs 48.2, 80 vs 83.3); no agreement statistic. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] ECHO (arXiv 2404.13957v1, 22 Apr 2024) does include a human evaluation of LLM-generated text: acquaintances of ten real volunteers (at least seven each) saw ten pairs of answers, one from the real person and one from a role-playing LLM, and picked the human one. The headline metric is how often the LLM answer was chosen (50% is chance). Overall rates ran 37.5 to 48.2 across methods, with GPTs closest to chance. The targets are ordinary living people, not fictional characters, and the task is human-versus-machine, not which character said a line, so S52's negative narrows rather than falls. No agreement statistic was found, and LLM judges were scored against ground truth, not validated against the human raters; they picked the LLM answer as the human one above 90% for the two GPT-4 judges. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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