Submitted to Public Opinion Quarterly

Detecting LLM-Generated Answers to Open-Ended Survey Questions: A Survey-Specific Data-Quality Review Tool

Joshua Y. Lerner, Brandon Sepulvado, Lilian Huang, Ting Yan

Summary

Develops and validates a survey-specific detector for AI-like open-ended responses as one signal in layered data-quality review, not as a standalone fraud determination.