Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

It's incredible, for months now I see some suggested groups, with an AI generated picture of a pet/animal, and the text is always "Great photography". I block them, but still see new groups every day with things like this, incredible...

This is a pretty sweet ad for https://originality.ai/ai-checker

They don't talk much about their secret sauce. That 40% figure is based on "trust me bro, our tool is really good". Would have been nice to be able to verify this figure / use the technique elsewhere.

It's pretty tiring to keep seeing ads masquerading as research.

Keep in mind this is for AI generated TEXT, not the images everyone is talking about in this thread.

Also they used an automated tool, all of which have very high error rates, because detecting AI text is a fundamentally impossible task

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

FB has been junk for more than a decade now, AI or no.

I check mine every few weeks because I'm a sports announcer and it's one way people get in contact with me, but it's clear that FB designs its feed to piss me off and try to keep me doomscrolling, and I'm not a fan of having my day derailed.

I’ve posted a notice to leave next week. I need to scrape my photos off, get any remaining contacts, and turn off any integrations. I was only there to connect with family. I can email or text.

FB is a dead husk fake feeding some rich assholes. If it’s coin flip AI, what’s the point?

> uses ai slop to illustrate it

When I was looking for a job, I ran into a guide to make money using AI:

1. Choose a top selling book.

2. Ask Chat GPT to give a summary for each chapter.

3. Paste the summaries into Google docs.

4. Export as PDF.

5. Sell on Amazon as a digital “short version” or “study guide” for the original book.

6. Repeat with other books.

Blew my mind how much hot stinking garbage is out there.

The bigger problem is AI “ignorance,” and it’s not just Facebook. I’ve reported more than one Lemmy post the user naively sourced from ChatGPT or Gemini and took as fact.

No one understands how LLMs work, not even on a basic level. Can’t blame them, seeing how they’re shoved down everyone’s throats as opaque products, or straight up social experiments like Facebook.

…Are we all screwed? Is the future a trippy information wasteland? All this seems to be getting worse and worse, and everyone in charge is pouring gasoline on it.

I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’d be interested to see what they used to make that determination. All of the AI detection I know of are prone to a lot of false-positives.

This kind of just looks like an add for that companies AI detection software NGL.

I was wondering who Facebook was for, good to know AI has low standards

And 58.82% are likely generated by human junk then.

Thanks.
Now do Reddit comments.

If you want to visit your old friends in the dying mall. Go to feeds then friends. Should filter everything else out.

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.

Anyone on Facebook deserves to be shit on by sloppy. They also deserve scanned out of all of the money and anything else.

If you’re on Facebook, you deserve this. Get the hell off Facebook.

Edit: itt: brain, dead, and fascist apologist Facebook Earth, who just refuse to accept that their platform is one of the biggest advent of Nazi fascism in this country, and they are all 100% complicit.

Probably on par with the junk human users are posting

That’s an extremely low sample size for this

Title says 40% of posts but the article says 40% of long-form posts yet doesn't in any way specify what counts as a long-form post. My understanding is that the vast majority of Facebook posts are about the lenght of a tweet so I doubt that the title is even remotely accurate.

and, is the jury already in on which ai is most fuckable?

Not my Annie! No! Not my Annie!

If you could reliably detect "AI" using an "AI" you could also use an "AI" to make posts that the other "AI" couldn't detect.

how tf did it take 6 years to analyze 8000 posts

Take note this does not appear to be an independent study. Tell me I'm wrong?

Deleted my account a little while ago but for my feed I think it was higher. You couldn't block them fast enough, and mostly obviously AI pictures that if the comments are to be believed as being actual humans...people believed were real. It was a total nightmare land. I'm sad that I have now lost contact with the few distant friends I had on there but otherwise NOTHING lost.

You know what they say about Al...

Considering that they do automated analysis, 8k posts does not seem like a lot. But still very interesting.