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Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated (originality.ai)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Originality.AI looked at 8,885 long Facebook posts made over the past six years.

Key Findings

  • 41.18% of current Facebook long-form posts are Likely AI, as of November 2024.
  • Between 2023 and November 2024, the average percentage of monthly AI posts on Facebook was 24.05%.
  • This reflects a 4.3x increase in monthly AI Facebook content since the launch of ChatGPT. In comparison, the monthly average was 5.34% from 2018 to 2022.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Keep in mind this is for AI generated TEXT, not the images everyone is talking about in this thread.

Also they used an automated tool, all of which have very high error rates, because detecting AI text is a fundamentally impossible task

[โ€“] PumpkinSkink 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. This is a way bigger problem with this article than anything else. The entier thing hinges on their AI-detecting AI working. I have looked into how effective these kinds of tools are because it has come up at my work, and independent review of them suggests they're, like, 3-5 times worse than the (already pretty bad) accuracy rates they claim, and disproportionatly flag non-native English speakers as AI generated. So, I'm highly skeptical of this claim as well.

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