Over 40% of Facebook Posts are Likely AI-Generated — Study – Originality.AI
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Have you seen a Facebook post and wondered if it was AI-generated or human-written? In this study, we analyze the impact of ChatGPT and generative AI tools on Facebook posts. These are our findings.

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.
    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      20 days ago

      In that case, how/why did they only choose 8000 posts over 6 years? Facebook probably gets more than 8000 new posts per second.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        19 days ago

        I was wondering how far I’d have to scroll before getting to someone who doesn’t understand statistics complaining about the sample size…

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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          19 days ago

          There’s likely been trillions of posts on Facebook during that time frame. Is a sample size of 8000 really sufficient for a corpus that large?

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            18 days ago

            Have you ever heard of “margin of error”?

            Learn statistics, it’s actually super informative.