{
  "slug": "survey-panel-bot-fraud",
  "title": "A third of your survey responses may not be from people",
  "summary": "Estimates of fraudulent survey responses run from 15 to 40 percent. Every filter is a detector, and AI agents now pass them. Here is the control that holds.",
  "lede": "Industry estimates of fraudulent online survey responses run from 15 percent to 40 percent depending on who is counting and how. The spread itself is the finding: nobody can measure this well, because every measurement is a detector, and the things being detected now write better open ends than your respondents do.",
  "date": "2026-09-10",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Research",
  "tags": [
    "survey fraud",
    "market research",
    "bots in surveys",
    "panel data quality",
    "verified respondent",
    "AI agents",
    "research integrity"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Survey%20Panel%20Fraud/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/survey-panel-bot-fraud.html",
  "wordcount": 5078,
  "related": [
    "identity-failure-map",
    "proof-of-human-work",
    "how-to-prove-human-2026"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}