# Professor Panos Ipeirotis discusses concerns that bots are negatively impacting the survey quality of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

1 Faculty News August 17, 2018 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-mechanical-turk-bot-panic/) -- "'Most people are, by now, smart enough to deal with noise that comes from workers that do not pay attention, or from bots,' [Ipeirotis](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/panagiotis-ipeirotis) says."

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