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Artificial-Intelligence-Mediated Contamination in Online Research: Taxonomy, Risk Gradient, and Recommendations

2026-08-16

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<p>For 2 decades, online research has relied on a quality heuristic: Careful, coherent responding is good data. That heuristic is no longer reliable. Autonomous artificial-intelligence (AI) agents can now pass nearly all conventional quality checks, and in text-rich crowd-work tasks, reported use of large language models approaches one third. When such consultation shapes the response process itself—not just its s...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6q9ps_v4

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