I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing. Solutions are hard: > 1. Make surveys less boring. > We need to move past bland, grid-filled surveys and start designing > experiences people actually want to complete. That means mobile-first layouts, > shorter runtimes, and maybe even a dash of storytelling. TikTok or dating app > style surveys wouldn’t be a bad idea or is that just me being too much Gen Z? > > 2. Bot detection. > There’s a growing toolkit of ways to spot AI-generated responses—using things > like response entropy, writing style patterns or even metadata like keystroke > timing. Platforms should start integrating these detection tools more widely. > Ideally, you introduce an element that only humans can do, e.g., you have to > pick up your price somewhere in-person. Btw, note that these bots can easily > be designed to find ways around the most common detection tactics such as > Captcha’s, timed responses and postcode and IP recognition. Believe me, way > less code than you suspect is needed to do this...