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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

8k posts sounds like 0.00014 percent of Facebook posts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It probably is but it’s a large sample size and if the selection is random enough, it’s likely sufficient to extrapolate some numbers. This is basically how drug testing works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

And statistical analysis. The larger the universe, the smaller the true random sample you need