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The threat of synthetic respondents extends to clinical mental health screening

2026-03-06

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<p>Online platforms have enabled clinical mental health research at unprecedented scale, yet large language models (LLMs) now threaten the integrity of remotely collected data. Recent work has demonstrated that LLM-based synthetic respondents can complete general surveys with human-like plausibility, but the vulnerability of validated clinical psychiatric instruments remains unexamined. Here, we show that a commer...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7ebmy_v1

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