Proof by presence 🤖👁️🙅 Check out our new position piece on webcam eye tracking for AI bot detection! 🧵 below:

This is incredibly cool and important work! If you think you have bots in your online survey data, why not just have participants turn on their webcam and track their gaze during the study? This team provides open-source resources for implementation and a guide to usage! 🤩

It’s NOT time to abandon online data pools! However, we should screen carefully

One initial line of defense could be to require transparency statements regarding how instruments have been vetted to combat malicious users, based on best practices (like a STAR editor check). In a recent workshop, we aimed to create such a compendium (see @andreaaaaa.bsky.social for access)!

There's hope! This is an adversarial game, researchers will need to continuously innovate to stay ahead @kiante.bsky.social @andreaaaaa.bsky.social & @jbogard.bsky.social ran an excellent workshop at #SJDM2025 to help folks get started Materials here: kiante-fernandez.github.io/sjdm-data-va...

Thanks so much for featuring us! So glad for everyone who attended and very happy to follow up if that’s of interest

Very cool and important work 🤩