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Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated (originality.ai)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The other 60% are old people re-sharing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Ok this made me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

6% old people re-sharing. The other 54% were bot accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Well, there's also 0.1% who are relatives of old people who are tring to keep in touch with the batty old meme-forwarders. I was one of those until the ones who mattered most to me shuffled off this mortal coil.