Can Crowdsourcing Survive the LLM Era? A Community Survey on Human Data Collection
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Title:Can Crowdsourcing Survive the LLM Era? A Community Survey on Human Data Collection
Abstract:The widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as writing tools challenges the validity of crowdsourced data, as crowdworkers may outsource tasks to models. To better understand how this is addressed, we surveyed 155 researchers in NLP and related disciplines about their experiences and opinions on collecting free-text responses via crowdsourcing. This paper provides an overview of practitioners' challenges, mitigation strategies, and the foreseen implications on data quality. 44% of respondents reported observing LLM usage in their crowdsourced data. While 93% of them had anticipated this, half were unsure what precautions to take. The most prevalent detection strategies are distinctive textual style patterns and unusually fast completion times. Overall, survey responses show that the research community is aware of the problem and taking measures, but existing efforts remain insufficient to fully address it. Finally, we derive a set of considerations to guide future crowdsourced free-text data collection in the era of LLMs.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.04924 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.04924v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.04924
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From: Aswathy Velutharambath [view email][v1] Wed, 3 Jun 2026 14:18:27 UTC (538 KB)
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