With the release of Gemini Live / OpenAls Operator, we started working o
perspective piece on how to tackle the growing threat these systems pose to online behavioural research and its validity.
We hope this helps move the conversation forward.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390
Tobias Werner
Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...
Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language.
LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing.
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