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AI-mediated contamination in online research: Taxonomy, risk gradient, and recommendations
2026-01-21
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<p>For two decades, online research has relied on a quality heuristic: careful, coherent responding is good data. That heuristic is no longer reliable. Autonomous AI agents can now pass nearly all conventional quality checks, and on text-rich crowd-work tasks, reported use of large language models (LLMs) approaches one third. When such consultation shapes the response process itself—not merely its surface expressi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 73018618-adb0-5be7-9fcb-1a7eca2eb53a
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/6q9ps_v2