Fresh HUMAINE results are here. Gemini 3 is still first, but Mistral Large 3 and Deepseek v3.2 are making things interesting. Opus 4.5 didn't dominate, but Antropic is likely prioritizing complex reasoning/coding over the conversational fluency that this benchmark favors. prolific.com/humaine

Lots of chatter about this paper currently. Its a stark warning, but at present I see this as a stark warning of what might come, not what is happening now. As a research community we need to see it as a call-to-arms to develop new strategies, NOT a call to abandon online sampling. Reasoning below

Without minimising the seriousness of the threat raised in this paper, I'm more optimistic. This is just the latest challenge in online integrity of online research. We've been proactively adding to our suite of authenticity tools - more every week - including many of Sean's recommendations: