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For the past 20 years, China has increasingly restricted the access of minors to online games using addiction prevention systems (APSes). At the same time, and through different means, i.e., the Great Firewall of China (GFW), it also…
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The widespread adoption of generative AI (GenAI) has introduced new challenges in crowdsourced data collection, particularly in survey-based research. While GenAI offers powerful capabilities, its unintended use in crowdsourcing, such as…