Title: ChatGPT-4 Can Fill In Perceived Personality Questionnaires to Accurately Predict How People Perceive Public Figures’ Personalities
Abstract: We show that ChatGPT can predict public figures’ perceived personalities without being provided with any training data or feedback on its performance. ChatGPT and 600 human raters evaluated 300 public figures’ personalities using the Ten Item Personality Inventory. The correlation between ChatGPT and humans’ ratings ranged from r=.81 to .96, outperforming the models specifically trained to make such predictions. We discuss the implications of these findings for both personality psychology and AI research, underscoring the increasing ability of LLMs to discern latent psychological traits, such as perceived personality, without any additional training.