Code for paper "Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation"

How to run?

1. Install the required packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Fill in the necessary API keys in a .env file:

   OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY
   PERSPECTIVE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY
   

3. Edit the main script to set the size of the simulation, the number of steps and strategies in the call to the function run_simulation in main.py:

   run_simulation(simulation_size=500, simulation_steps=10000, 
                       user_link_strategy="on_repost_bio", 
                       timeline_select_strategy="other_partisan",
                       show_info=True, run_nr=i)

4. Run the main script:

   python main.py > output.txt

Outputs will be saved in results folder - a Pickle file with the whole platform state and a JSON file with results.