Information processing apparatus, intermediary method, and recording medium

An intermediary method, comprising:

• at least one processor accepting a request for a survey in which answers to a predetermined question are collected;
• and
• the at least one processor conducting, with a predetermined negotiating partner, negotiations for causing a vicariously answering language model to generate an answer to the predetermined question, the vicariously answering language model having been trained by machine learning so as to be capable of generating, as a surrogate for a predetermined user, an answer to an inputted question.

A non-transitory recording medium having recorded thereon an intermediary program for causing a computer to carry out:

• an accepting process of accepting a request for a survey in which answers to a predetermined question are collected;
• and
• a negotiating process of conducting, with a predetermined negotiating partner, negotiations for causing a vicariously answering language model to generate an answer to the predetermined question, the vicariously answering language model having been trained by machine learning so as to be capable of generating, as a surrogate for a predetermined user, an answer to an inputted question.