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Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated (originality.ai)
submitted 16 hours ago by will_a113@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That’s an extremely low sample size for this

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

8,855 long-form Facebook posts from various users using a 3rd party. The dataset spans from 2018 to November 2024, with a minimum of 100 posts per month, each containing at least 100 words.

seems like thats a good baseline rule and that was about the total number that matched it

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

With apparently 3 billion active users

Only summing up 9k posts over a 6 year stretch with over 100 words feels like an outreach problem. Conclusion could be drawn that bots have better reach

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

each post has to be 100 words with at least 100 posts a month

how many actual users do that?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I have no idea because I don’t use the site

But to say less than 0.0001% just seems hard to believe

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't use the site either but 100 words is a lot for a facebook post