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Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated (originality.ai)
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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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Also… the tremendous irony here is Meta is screwing themselves over.

They've hedged their future on AI, and are smart enough to release the weights and fund open research, yet their advantage (a big captive dataset, aka Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp users) is completely overrun with slop that poisons it. It’s as laughable as Grok (X’s AI) being trained on Twitter.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Meta is probably screwed already. Their user base is not growing as before, maybe shrinking in some markets, and they need the padding to cover it up.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Very true.

But also so stupid because their user base is, what, a good fraction of the planet? How can they grow?